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jlaustill | 9 years ago | on: Testing Linearizability with Jepsen and Evergreen: “Call Me Continuously”

I enjoyed this writeup. It's good to know the software we depend on for our companies data is tested to this extreme.

jlaustill | 9 years ago | on: MongoDB 3.4.0-rc3

This is great news. Historically I've accepted the risk of data loss and coded checks when needed. I will never rely on my database, regardless of which one I am using for complete data consistency. It is, however, nice to see strides being made towards even better robustness. Go MongoDB!

jlaustill | 9 years ago | on: The MongoDB hack and the importance of secure defaults

This was 100% preventable, MongoDB comes with great resources for securing your data. I pity whomever puts ANY database on the internet without taking proper security measures.

Here's some documentation to get you started.

https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/how-to-avoid-a-malicious-a...

https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/administration/security-chec...

https://www.mongodb.com/collateral/mongodb-security-architec...

This really should have been titled "the importance of good DBA's..."

jlaustill | 9 years ago | on: Think before you Mongo

The author freely admits they tried to do a relational schema in a non-relational database. Then proceeds to say it was the wrong choice of product, instead of design. This confuses me. I use MongoDB as my main database, and it works great for me. However, I did have to learn that it works differently, which meant writing my code differently.

My question is this, if you tried to use PostGres and designed your tables super super wide and embedded everything in large object data types and then it got to complicated to manage and figure out, would you consider that a failure of PostGres, or your failure as a developer/architect?

I will have to chock this up to a good laugh myself. Lastly, I've used relational databases for most of my career, and I'm very good at writing SQL. But after learning MongoDB and how to use it properly, there isn't a lot that I would want to go back to an RDBMS for. And with the future roadmap of MongoDB, I don't see that changing.