On: Skipping the boring parts of building a database using FoundationDB

[metadat]

Are you Himank or Yevgeniy?

Good luck with your project, FDB fucked it's users back in 2015 when it abruptly closed shop and went closed source. Hopefully some good can come of it yet.

[ovaistariq → metadat]

It has significant usage across large companies such as Apple, Snowflake, Epic Games, VMWare, etc. I don't see it going closed source. Besides that, here Tigris is taking the responsibility for the product as it is abstracting FoundationDB from the end-user.

[endisneigh → metadat]

I can assure you from FDB will not be closed sourced again. But I agree that it was pretty bad for its [open source] users that it was made closed source. Terrible move for adoption.

[jen20 → metadat]

> FDB fucked it's users back in 2015 when it abruptly closed shop and went closed source

This is simply untrue - it was not open source prior to acquisition either. The first point at which FDB was open-source was 2018.

[metadat → jen20]

FDB screwed their users in 2015 when they abruptly closed shop with no further development, support, or even a migration plan.

Gotta get that Apple money.

[jen20 → metadat]

Many of those users continued to be users, with source licenses, who are users to this day. If you had a commercial contract you were unaffected. Perhaps not if you were freeloading…

[metadat → jen20]

Ah yes, it was my own fault for believing in them.

[spullara → metadat]

I mean, that was Apple. It was no small feat to get them to later open source it.