Agreed - Century of Self is fantastic.

Along the same lines as Noam Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent". The book is great, and there's a documentary from 92: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzufDdQ6uKg

Ah, I had forgotten about Manufacturing Consent. That is an excellent documentary as well. I have the book but I haven't yet read it.

I'm a seasoned backend-centric developer - tools of choice these days are Scala, Java and Python, mainly in a *nix environment. Looking to work on interesting/novel problems with high quality and practice standards. Big on testing, and (pragmatic) functional programming.

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Not sure what Wu-Tang has to do with this, but....

Seriously though, is Mongo an ODB, or a document oriented database? ODBs/OODBs imply a much different use-case and functionality, and I think we ought not conflate the two.

Mongo is not an ODB in the traditional ODB sense. Mongo is just a document (or blob) database. ODB supports relationship, link traversal, inheritance, etc. Basically the whole shebang of the OO notions in a database.

You're right, I didn't know there was a difference.