Episode 1 - Mongo DB Is Web Scale

gar1t · 1.2M views · 2010-08-27 · 5:36

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Overview

A satirical animated dialogue in which a naive developer insists MongoDB is web scale while a database expert mocks him. It parodies the NoSQL versus relational debate.

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Posted as a classic meme whenever MongoDB, NoSQL hype or tech fads come up.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2013–2026

Topics

Satire & parody Databases & storage

What people said

mikey_p · 2026-03 · Joke / meme
Who cares about stars on Github??? "If dev null is fast and webscale I will use it" "Does dev null support sharding" Who remembers [VIDEO]
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gavinray · 2026-03 · Joke / meme
I'm reminded of the "MongoDB is WebScale" video: as of this moment I officially resigned from my job as software engineer and will take up work on the farm shoveling pig shit and administering anal suppositories to sick horses because that will be a thousand times more tolerable than being in the same industry as dipshits like you [VIDEO]
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thewebguyd · 2025-10 · Joke / meme
> Majority of projects don't need the web scale or whatever. Truth. All the major cloud platform marketing is YAGNI but for infrastructure instead of libraries/code. As someone who works in ops and has since starting as a sysadmin in the early 00s, it's been entertaining to say the least to watch everyone rediscover hosting your own stuff as if it's some new innovation and wasn't ever possible before. It's like that old MongoDB is web scale video ( [VIDEO] ) Watching devs discover Docker was similarly entertaining back then when us in ops have been using LXC and BSD jails, etc. to containerize code pre-DevOps. Anyway, all that to say - go buy your gray beard sysadmins a coffee let them help you. We would all be thrilled to bring stuff back on-prem or go back to self hosting and running infra again and probably have a few tricks to teach you.
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