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.
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MongoDB is a partner of AWS -
https://partners.amazonaws.com/partners/001E000000U0VKNIA3/MongoDB
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 … 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 scale… really, only banks who get stuck not being able to do joins on their db are the ones using it cause they can’t figure sharding out on their own.
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).