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Put away your (figurative) plague, chain mail, and accusations of witchcraft. It’s time for pretty music, sketches of flying machines, and blossoming cities. Or to speak more plainly: the database industry is supposed to be undergoing a renaissance.
As someone who’s been working on the data store known as MongoDB, Geir Magnusson is pretty well in the thick of things. He’s also a member of the Apache Foundation, which makes for a sort of gold star on any resume.
Magnusson recently told Alex Handy, “All of the sudden, from out of the Dark Ages we’ve got all these ideas that people are willing to try and use. It’s a fantastic time for databases and data storage.”
Magnusson then explained, “My position is that we have two things happening.” First, “[A]pplications are moving towards the Web . . . . Second, it appears that work over the last 30 years in distributed systems is really coming together and bearing fruit in terms of the kind of systems we’re seeing.”
So be sure to stay on top of these trends. Aspects of the Dark Ages may have been neat, but little things like living past the age of 30 make the following eras much more attractive in most people’s minds.
Topics: Database, Programming
