Episode 1 - Mongo DB Is Web Scale
Why Hacker News recommends it
Posted as a classic meme whenever MongoDB, NoSQL hype or tech fads come up.
What it is
A satirical animated dialogue in which a naive developer insists MongoDB is web scale while a database expert mocks him. It parodies the NoSQL versus relational debate.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2013 to 2026.
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Cites arkush · 2021-11 · on “The Rust compiler has gotten faster again”
The hvasilev's comment got flagged and I could not reply to it anymore, so I'll reply here (sorry) and copy-paste the hvasilev's comment verbatim below, for the sake of commenting on it's claims: --- Reality is not on the side of this language. 11 year old, has a very low adoption with virtually no jobs associated. ( [LINK] ) On the other hand if you search for "Rust" in the latest "Who wants to be hired?" thread, you will see it is quite popular with unemployed people. The reality is that the language has a lot of friction, the ergonomics are bad, the syntax is heavy and some poor decision making has been made there for a systems-level programming language. There are a lot of ideological tr
Cites wpietri · 2025-06 · on “My AI skeptic friends are all nuts”
I think "the reality", at least as something involving a new paradigm, has yet to be established. I'll note that I heard plenty of similar talk about how developers just couldn't adapt six months or more ago. Promoters now can admit those tools were in fact pretty bad, because they now have something else to promote, but at the time those not rawdogging LLMs were dinosaurs under a big meteor. I do of course agree that some people are just refusing to "wrap their minds around the changing world". But anybody with enough experience in tech can count a lot more instances of "the world is about to change" than "the world really changed". The most recent obvious example being cryptocurrencies, bu