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MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria talks AI hype and the database evolution as he crosses 10-year mark

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MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria talks AI hype and the database evolution as he crosses 10-year mark

Image Credits: MongoDB A lot has happened since Dev Ittycheria took the reins at MongoDB, the $26 billion database company he’s led as president and CEO since September 2014. Ittycheria has taken MongoDB to the cloud, steered it through an IPO, overseen its transition from open source, launched a venture capital arm, and grown the …

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The language of software licencing needs an upgrade, says Percona’s Peter Zatsiev

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The language of software licencing needs an upgrade, says Percona’s Peter Zatsiev

So says Peter Zatsiev, co-founder of managed database firm Percona and investor in several open source projects. This point of view often has moral overtones, saying open source is transparent and therefore “good”, whereas proprietary software is closed and therefore “bad”, or at least suspect. But this picture is simplistic and increasingly outmoded. First, software …

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