Episode 1 - Mongo DB Is Web Scale

Q&A discussion discussing the merits of No SQL and relational databases.

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Adobe Analytics reports Black Friday online spending soared to a record $11.8 BILLION! It seems even the internet is getting tired from all that traffic.

Ever wonder about the massive infrastructure that handles a *trillion* retail site visits in a single day? What's the unsung hero tech stack behind these numbers?

#WebScale #TechStats #Ecommerce #BlackFriday #DataScience
Link: https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/29/black-friday-sets-online-spending-record-of-11-8b-adobe-says/

Black Friday sets online spending record of $11.8B, Adobe says | TechCrunch

American consumers spent $11.8 billion online on Black Friday, according to data from Adobe Analytics, which says it tracks more than 1 trillion visits to U.S. retail websites.

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Are any databases vibe-scale?

#webscale

next year's @SeaGL streaming tech stack: k8s, running on a NixOS base system, with a MongoDB-backed Haskell blockchain implementation (bc #webscale) running in the cluster on the laptop.

...the blockchain is the message bus by which the GPT controls the streaming laptop. oh and also Prometheus.

#SeaGL #seagl2025

🚀 Ah yes, because obviously the ultimate combo for web scale is Node.js wrapped in #Rust with a sprinkle of #JavaScript and cookies. 🍪💡 What could possibly go wrong when alchemists try to turn tech buzzwords into throughput gold? 🙄
https://www.npmjs.com/package/brahma-firelight #webscale #Nodejs #techbuzzwords #HackerNews #ngated
brahma-firelight

A blazing-fast, fire-and-forget orchestrator built with Rust and JavaScript, designed for ultra-low-latency task routing, message triggering, and heavyweight logic execution — all without blocking. A native Rust AddOn for NodeJS, BunJS and DenoJS.. Latest version: 1.5.16, last published: a month ago. Start using brahma-firelight in your project by running `npm i brahma-firelight`. There are no other projects in the npm registry using brahma-firelight.

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This devroom is really my yearly #detox from #BigTech #WebScale shenanigans

Minimalist Web Application Deployment with Scheme by David Thompson,
@spritely CTO

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5140-minimalist-web-application-deployment-with-scheme/ #FOSDEM #FOSDEM2025 #FLOSSConf #FLOSSConference #Scheme #Guile

FOSDEM 2025 - Minimalist web application deployment with Scheme

#LinkedData is a job that #RDF enables us to do well, at #Web-scale :-)
#IOGDC question about Attribution and #OpenData. Answer: #LinkedData #URIs are a natural mechanism for #Web-scale attribution.
Wafrn is now taking 5 full seconds to load my dashboard  It is not webscale #webscale

Just did something I have avoided for ~15 years: I installed a MongoDB server. 😂

It's not for myself, but am I #webscale by association now?