Founder and developer at Bloco.
Member of Coimbr'a Pedal and departamento.co.
In the modern era, software is commonly delivered as a service: called web apps, or software-as-a-service. The twelve-factor app is a methodology for building software-as-a-service apps.
Tags: development
The problem with talent, though, is that in most cases the person involved can’t control its amount or quality. You might find the amount isn’t enough and you want to increase it, or you might try to be frugal and make it last longer, but in neither case do things work out that easily. Talent has a mind of its own and wells up when it wants to, and once it dries up, that’s it. Of course, certain poets and rock singers whose genius went out in a blaze of glory—people like Schubert and Mozart, whose dramatic early deaths turned them into legends—have a certain appeal, but for the vast majority of us this isn’t the model we follow.
— Haruki Murakami: Talent Is Nothing Without Focus and Endurance
Summer reading.
Tags: books
Friday, July 15, 2011, 8:00 PM
Developing an important application under a new technology is always a bet. That’s what we did when we choose to use MongoDB as our only database system for Bundlr. It helped that 10gen, MongoDB’s creators, were funded by Union Square Ventures. It also helped that there were already a few somewhat solid ORMs for Ruby on Rails.
Recently we had two great news: first MongoLab and then MongoHQ raised funding. I had the chance to meet the MongoLab’s folks in San Francisco and I got excited by their future plans. For example, I still haven’t found the ideal front-end for managing MongoDB databases, but I got a demo of the new MongoLab GUI and it’s shaping up pretty well.
The MongoDB ecosystem is growing as more and more companies are using it. Let’s see what the future will bring us…
Tags: mongodb