{"id":25173,"date":"2019-05-03T21:51:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T01:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=25173"},"modified":"2019-05-10T15:01:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T19:01:58","slug":"mongodb-acquires-realm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/03\/mongodb-acquires-realm\/","title":{"rendered":"MongoDB Acquires Realm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mongodb.com\/blog\/post\/mongodb-and-realm-make-it-easy-to-work-with-data-together\">Eliot Horowitz<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=19737949\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.mongodb.com\/blog\/post\/mongodb-and-realm-make-it-easy-to-work-with-data-together\">\n<p>The best thing in the world is when someone just <em>gets<\/em> you, and you <em><a href=\"https:\/\/realm.io\/blog\/mongodb-to-acquire-realm-the-future-is-bright\">get them<\/a><\/em>, because when you share a vision of the world like that, you can do incredible things together. That&rsquo;s exactly the case with MongoDB and Realm, so I&rsquo;m very happy to report that MongoDB has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mongodb.com\/press\/mongodb-strengthens-mobile-offerings-with-acquisition-of-realm\">just entered into an agreement to acquire Realm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Realm and MongoDB are a natural fit because we share a vision that when developers can interact naturally with data, they are happier and more productive, and because our products are complementary. We&rsquo;re excited to get to work crafting our shared roadmap and will be ready to announce concrete details at our annual global conference, MongoDB World, held June 17-19 in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>One key principle guiding that process is simple: we will not introduce backwards breaking changes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/krzyzanowskim\/status\/1121133993502679042\">Marcin Krzyzanowski<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/krzyzanowskim\/status\/1121133993502679042\"><p>&ldquo;Both MongoDB and Realm are committed to supporting our customers on their current solution, and nothing will change right now.&rdquo;<\/p><p>&ldquo;Parse has agreed to be acquired by Facebook. Rest assured, Parse is not going away. It&rsquo;s going to  get better.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/14\/aws-mongodb-and-the-economic-realities-of-open-source\/\">AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/29\/realm-mobile-platform\/\">Realm Mobile Platform<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/30\/sunsetting-parse\/\">Sunsetting Parse<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/16\/a-look-into-realms-core-db-engine\/\">A Look Into Realm&rsquo;s Core DB Engine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/16\/introducing-realm\/\">Introducing Realm<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"mongodb-acquires-realm-update-2019-05-10\">Update (2019-05-10): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drewmccormack\/status\/1126020392353705984\">Drew McCormack<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drewmccormack\/status\/1126020392353705984\">\n<p>Realm did a great job marketing themselves &mdash; their talk series was great &mdash; but I think they took their eyes off the ball. The core product was secondary. Sync was added very, very late, in a world where it is absolutely essential.<\/p>\n<p>But even worse, and this applies to both Parse and Realm, these services didn't offer a very attractive proposition to developers. They locked you in to their API, and their server &mdash; you had to bet your whole company on a shaky startup.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eliot Horowitz (Hacker News): The best thing in the world is when someone just gets you, and you get them, because when you share a vision of the world like that, you can do incredible things together. That&rsquo;s exactly the case with MongoDB and Realm, so I&rsquo;m very happy to report that MongoDB has just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-05-04T01:51:56Z","apple_news_api_id":"8becb542-8a4f-4986-8c18-165a8a280b1f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-05-10T19:02:01Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ai-y1QopPSYaMGBZaiigLHw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[66,143,31,30,1800,942],"class_list":["post-25173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-acquisition","tag-database","tag-ios","tag-mac","tag-mongodb","tag-realm"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25215,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25173\/revisions\/25215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}