Amazonians at MongoDB
I was looking up mongodb discussions to prepare for an interview and stumbled upon this I wonder if the 4.8 review will now change given that so many Amazonians want to go to MongoDB. Or are they going to find a better wlb after being at amazon and will improve the products.
Some people leave Amazon because they hate the culture. Or when they drop into a new culture they will adapt to it. I wouldnโt worry so much unless Bezos himself was taking over.
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I hated working at amazon as well. But going from working on what Iโd say is high impact software to go work on something used only dumb banks and soon to be obsolete due to snowflake/databricks like companies โฆ. What are the people within FAANG and outside you typically want to listen to? Those that (helped) create a amazing piece of tech that changed how we do things. For example I worked with a staff here that worked on original iOS. That is so interesting hear about and learn trade offs from. Mongo is quite a poor product overall, weird implementation which nobody is replicating for scaling, odd query language, no decent analytics support, pain in the but still if you got model wrong โฆ There is a reason it is not used inside FAANG and the likes, not even pieces of its architecture get replicated for solutions requiring huge scaleโฆ really, only banks who get stuck not being able to do joins on their db are the ones using it cause they canโt figure sharding out on their own.
Mongo has progressed well in its analytics recently and also has much more of a training material to offer. Mql is different from the standard relational DB, but so is DybamoDb etc. Sharing is tricky only if you don't test in your staging environment first ๐
Staging??? lol ๐. When you have a decent sized company with data to match there is no more staging environment. You figure out how to safely test in prod and your DB needs to be able to do that. We build are own database, pretty straightforward sharding. Look up schemaless, dosa, etc. And ofcourse hive for data warehousing and occasionally DynamoDB (I hate amazon, but Dynamo rocks).
Lol..i have personally not seen mongo db used in my teams over a span of last 4 years
Isn't that like saying I have not seen Amazon Dynamo used in my team ever??
I said teams..i have been part of 3 teams so far, and why the fuck a Microsoft guy interfering here ๐