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by com2kid 2799 days ago
> Just look at any bootcamps for devs this days , it’s basically always JS + MongoDB. Not Postgres or MySQL , Mongo.

The online classes love Firebase. :-D

But yeah, I had to explain to a bootcamp dev a few weeks ago what Postgres was. I felt rather sad.

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I am a bootcamp dev (still in it) and I can confirm that its all node + mongo. I know what postgres is but obviously dont know anything about it technically. I am struggling to understand what this license change means for someone like myself who is building a web app with mongo...
Postgres is orders of magnitude safer, sometimes a bit slower, but requires a bit more forethought when it comes to planning a schema to match your models. You typically appreciate this more in maintenance and later development more than you appreciate it up front.

The general risk with any for profit open source company is either them pulling all the good features into the paid version, or suddenly changing your license so that closed source projects have to either stay on the old versions or pay for a commercial license.