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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Mongo DB popularized the “document DB” model which is just storing JSON in a database and offering a way to interact with it roughly like you would data in a traditional relational DB.

    7ish years ago, they got fed up with the major cloud providers offering their free software as a service and changed their license to one that is more restrictive.

    Of course this is sort of the inevitable outcome: a cloud provider builds a competing product and then “open sources” it in a way that will allow them to grab mind share and eventually erode the company that dared to demand compensation for a “free” product.

    Microsoft added a middle finger by announcing it just before mongo released quarterly financials too.








  • I like and understand where you’re going, but I can offer some actual experience. I learned my legal first name at 8.

    It didn’t go down well (I cried because the teacher didn’t call my name and sent me to the school office to get it sorted) and I had a weird complex about the real name into high school. There’s no rhyme or reason to the two names, so it is actually sort of surprising to pair the two. To this day I still go by the nickname I thought was my real name. My nieces and nephews still enjoy discovering my real name and calling me by it thinking it’s a big secret they’ve discovered. I still have to explain it a hundred times a year to new coworkers and acquaintances.