Pretty incredible how Postgres has gotten so dominant in eng mindshare over the last 5-8 years. Especially with super popular tools like Supabase now being built just on top of Postgres; feel like every company I see is on it
PSA: Stop starting startups on Firestore
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Re: PSA: Stop starting startups on Firestore
#12Document dbs, like crypto cycles, keep coming in and out of the zeitgeist...why? I just don't understand how purportedly smart engineers keep falling for the same traps over and over
That’s offensive to the innovation happening in crypto to be honest, compared to the lack of it in the non-relational database world
What is even left to innovate in document databases? They do a very specific thing well; it's not their fault naive engineers keep trying to use them in ways they are not intended to be used
Re: PSA: Stop starting startups on Firestore
#13Tech startup with very relational data picks hyped up non-relational database and regrets decision later… classic
Re: PSA: Stop starting startups on Firestore
#14Document dbs, like crypto cycles, keep coming in and out of the zeitgeist...why? I just don't understand how purportedly smart engineers keep falling for the same traps over and over
mistakes will always be made at all stages, imo the key differentiator is how quickly they course correct and iterate
It is not a mistake when it is a decision made after a well-thought tradeoff evaluation.
Re: PSA: Stop starting startups on Firestore
#15This reminds me of that April Fools tweet on Google sunsetting Firebase that I fell for lol https://x.com/tweetsofsumit/status/1774849820353548413?s=46
lol this would actually happen tho