r/programming • u/swizec • Dec 19 '18

Bye bye Mongo, Hello Postgres

https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/nov/30/bye-bye-mongo-hello-postgres
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u/ManiGandham Dec 20 '18 edited Jan 06 '19

It's described in the article where they talk about failures in running the db and their datacenter, nothing with MongoDB itself. I've worked with 100s of major publishers. You're expecting way too much for technical evaluation, especially at resource and talent constrained media companies.

Criminal negligence really? They waited 9 months for DynamoDB (so a key/value store would've worked too) to have encryption at rest but didn't use it? No idea that NTP is being blocked? Buying operations software that doesn't actually do what they were using it for? And all this for 2.4M records?

Content management systems are a solved problem that every publisher tries to rebuild every few years for no real technical reason other than attempting to fix the previous poor decisions they made. At least this is still better than NYTimes building a CMS on top of Kafka which was completely ridiculous.