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Cool, time to make MongoDb web scale! :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

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I like this bug report about pymongo (not the MongoDB core itself):

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/PYTHON-532

Step 1. Use Mongo as WEB SCALE DOCUMENT STORE OF CHOICE LOL

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Step 7. DISCOVER PYMONGO DOES NOT CHECK RETURN VALUES IN MULTIPLE PLACES. DISCOVER ORIGINAL AUTHOR SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED NEAR COMPUTER

One of the best bug reports I have ever read!

Only if you're a 5 year old. It's immature, unhelpful and generally pretty pathetic.

Lighten up. The submitter identified exactly the line and commit that enabled crashing all mongo deployments with a 16-byte post (I presume, from the report). Considering the circumstances, I congratulate the submitter on being so whimsical.

  if (strcmp(buffer + position + 5, "$ref") == 0) { / DBRef */

Seriously?

That video is a bit unfair. I went to the MongoDB conference in NYC this year. None of the 10gen engineers made such silver bullet claims. They strengthened again and again that MongoDB is with significant limitations and scaling it requires a lot of effort and creativity from the client developer side.

That being said, I do wish they can use this investment to do more feature development than marketing.

That video is three years old, though.

...but you can be sure that it's going to be posted every time MongoDB comes up. Somehow, people will vote it up as if it's still funny or adds something to the discussion.

I know. I added the smiley face because I meant it tongue in cheek.

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