Does anyone use Mongo anymore?
Edit: Honest to god question. I was surprised when I saw the headline, because I've never seen anyone use mongo in production, and never ran into any articles talking about using mongo.
Edit: Honest to god question. I was surprised when I saw the headline, because I've never seen anyone use mongo in production, and never ran into any articles talking about using mongo.
For something like your typical rails app, Mongo has some real nice properties. It makes it sticky. You start out with Mongo because you can just drop data in and off you go. You keep using it because Mongo, despite all of its drawbacks, is really plenty good enough for more than 80% of the stuff on the web.
Do they have growth at a rate that justifies their valuation?
If that's the case, is HN living in its own bubble? Because if you read HN you'd think that nobody will use mongodb for a new project.