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by redwood 1895 days ago
What surveys are you referring to? Got any sources?
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busterarm 1895 days ago
the yearly Stack Overflow survey, for one.

Find me a bunch of developers and infrastructure people who are EXCITED about running MongoDB. I guarantee you're going to find a 7-10+ year old infrastructure if you do.

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redwood 1891 days ago
Pretty misleading when it leads the most wanted category in that very survey (maybe you're thinking of what people report already using) https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-mo...
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rabbidruster 1895 days ago
This just isn't true. A large number of companies are building new applications with MongoDB atlas
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busterarm 1895 days ago
Yes, because Mongo's license prevents them from using alternatives to Atlas (read: other cloud providers). Of course Atlas growth looks good. It's them or self-hosting.

That's not the same as starting a new product on MongoDB.

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