This company is based on an ORM library? How do they make money?
The same company that stopped officially maintaining their golang library when it wasn't getting "the growth we were hoping for".
Prisma laying off 28% staff
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#102This is why I use no ORMs and use mysql like a man.
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#103This feels like a pithy negative quote, but I’ll say it anyway. How is a Node.js ORM a business in the first place?
Not an answer to your question, but just to shed light on the framing, it's slightly more abstracted than just a Node ORM - firstly it's Javascript and you can use it with any runtime other than Node, but it currently works with Go too and I believe their goal is to offer more languages in the future.
It's also a bit more abstracted on the 'data' side too. They offer a web interface, Prisma Studio, that abstracts over the physical database actually being used to allow you to do CRUD on the data. I think this is pretty useful.
In my mind (no connection to the company or knowledge beyond being a user) the business to be found there is in being the aggregation and intermediation layer of databases of different services, accessible to people with and without technical skills, in a uniform way.
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#104"I take full responsibility" is the new "our incredible journey" of failing tech company cliches.
"I take full responsibility" is always referred to the investors and shareholders. aka "I admit I have done a bad decision when I over hired and I'm correcting it". It's not a "I take full responsibility" towards the employees or customers.
So that's more like half of responsibility in total
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
> How is this responsibility defined? For sure not seppuku. Probably nothing will happen. In big companies it is a golden parachute, but this is not a big company.
> Probably nothing will happen. That's what I'm worried about and that's why I'm calling BS on this. The executive uses big words like "responsibility", I'd like to know what concrete measures are then hidden behind it.
Corporations talk only BS for the past 10-15 years, words have no longer a meaning. Failures are usually rewarded, not punished, failing upwards is the norm in many places. Expectations of real responsibility, actions, etc are for people from other times, that are old or retired.
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#106Is the word “impact” the latest way of saying “fired” without saying it? We are seeing that particular word in nearly every note regarding these types of action. Why this word and why is everyone using it? It’s not only CEOs and HR but on LinkedIn I see many people referring to themselves as “impacted” and open to word, etc. Is there a word for this type of memetic term suddenly being used everywhere as a substitute…
Being fired means you were terminated but the position is still needed. It’ll be hired for again.
Being made redundant means the position itself is no longer required, so you’re let go because your job isn’t there any more. Depending on the law in your country or jurisdiction this will also mean you can’t hire for that position again for some time.
There are more legal protections for the latter and businesses can’t just fire hundreds or thousands of people at once and claim it’s not a redundancy process.
Beyond all that thought, ‘impacted’ is just a euphemism for ‘laid off’ or ‘made redundant’.
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#107Funny timing. 3 days before this they had a major product release[0].
One wonders how related those are.
At a minimum, I suspect there were some GTM folks working pretty hard on the launch the last few weeks who 3 days later are out of a job…
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#108Damn, I use Prisma, it's a good way to have a unified database schema for which you can generate code in any language you want. It was very useful for converting a TypeScript project to a Rust one, I use prisma-client-rust in particular. https://github.com/Brendonovich/prisma-client-rust
Ooo a PCR user in the wild! Glad you like it haha. At least development on it won't slow down since I don't work at Prisma in the first place.
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#109> Upholding Prisma’s culture of openness and transparency
We will disclose the bare minimum amount that we can get away with, plus things that would end up biting us in the ass if we didn’t.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is the unique thing they offer that no other company can offer?
Prisma, being the most popular ORM at the moment, gives you a lot of leverage and opportunities for vertical integration
So basically, it's just a deployment-ready synergy provider?