Comments on: Polyglot persistence

By: The Real Adam · Polyglottin’ your data

The Real Adam · Polyglottin’ your data — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:18:16 +0000

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By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:08:52 +0000

@Ivan: Actually, I’ve been thinking about writing a post on the trap of the new and shiny – it certainly seems like Rubyists in particular are more inclined to buy into fads, and I have some ideas on why that is.

@Geoff: :p It certainly doesn’t roll off the tongue (though neither does “polyglot programmer”). I do like PPDB – or maybe ‘polypers’?

By: Geoffrey Grosenbach

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:59:40 +0000

And it’s under 10 syllables! ;-)

Is there a nickname? Maybe PPDB?

By: Ivan

Ivan — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:37:59 +0000

This happens often, doesn’t it? Why is it so easy to fall into this trap? Are we suckers for shiny new stuff?

I did think a while back that NoSQL was the next big thing, the end of RDBMS… I’m ashamed.

Adding one more database system, to something that already has many different components specialized for one task, doesn’t seem too insurmountable indeed.