Aaron Stannard

Aphyr has thoroughly explained what is wrong with MongoDB[1]. I'm quite sure that things aren't probably as swell with your tech stack you might imagine. A commenter here has in the past demonstrated how to cause someone using MongoDB data problems by sending too much information too quickly for MongoDB to handle in a targeted way although I can't find the link to it now. I have been wanting to try it myself to see if I could do it too. Firebase uses MongoDB[2]:

"Firebase stores all its data in MongoDB which offers the built-in capability for apps to scale automatically and gives each piece of data its own unique URL stored in JSON documents."

I was going to see if I can get achieve data consistency problems there for my own firebase app.

Also posts that malign MongoDB frequently make it to the home page [3][4].

[1] http://aphyr.com/posts/284-call-me-maybe-mongodb

[2] http://www.mongodb.org/about/production-deployments/

[3] http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2013/11/11/why-you-should-never-use-mongodb/

[4] http://www.aaronstannard.com/post/2013/12/19/The-Taxonomy-of-Terrible-Programmers.aspx

The issue here was Microsoft appointing itself judge and jury of which projects should have most-favored-nation status and that criteria being reflected directly into the package distribution system. Given Microsoft's singular influence over the .NET ecosystem, this presents a massive conflict of interest especially when pitting Microsoft's own first party solutions versus third party ones - there would be a tremendous amount of pressure to ensure that the MSFT packages rise to the top of the ladder without any guarantee as to their longevity.

I detailed this all at length here prior to defeating the initiative: https://aaronstannard.com/dotnet-foundation-maturity-ladder/

I stumbled upon a post today on Voat's scalability:

http://www.aaronstannard.com/voat-scalability/

This is the key issue it seems:

>As for the SignalR issues, I was able to confirm that Voat is running on a single box. Not a big deal given that it's still a hobby project for the developers, but the fact that it's not designed to run on anything other than a single box is an obvious problem. Either remove SignalR or support a backplane for it.