IBM was dropping RethinkDB support. No migration path. No alternatives. Just an end date. Andy Monroe's team at LaborChart had five engineers and an entire construction scheduling platform built on a database that was already dead. They'd watched every other RethinkDB hosting provider shut down, leaving only Compose.io. When IBM acquired Compose, they knew it was just a matter of time. Andy's air conditioning had died two hours before our interview. It was 90 degrees in Kansas, and as we talked about this moment, the irony wasn't lost on either of us. The company he'd helped build solved scheduling problems for construction workers—the very people who might have fixed his AC. Now he had a different kind of emergency to handle. Get Tern Stories in your inbox: https://tern.sh/youtube Connect with Andy! - andymonroe.dev