[11:41] You as the developer don't have to pre-define to your users how to slice and dice data. This is a very powerful and enriching experience that applications can now provide. You can delegate the exploration to your users. That's an extremely powerful concept.
Indeed. All about capturing market share. There were (and are) alternative solutions but some are designed around ways to make money and others are built for other reasons (contributing to community, hobby, etc.). This guy obviously had business in mind (or turned to business when he saw the money-making potential).
I was expecting "Why we built ElasticSearch, even though there is Solr"
[11:41] You as the developer don't have to pre-define to your users how to slice and dice data. This is a very powerful and enriching experience that applications can now provide. You can delegate the exploration to your users. That's an extremely powerful concept.
And now his company is valued $5b.
Indeed. All about capturing market share. There were (and are) alternative solutions but some are designed around ways to make money and others are built for other reasons (contributing to community, hobby, etc.). This guy obviously had business in mind (or turned to business when he saw the money-making potential).