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I run in two circles: the one you mention, but also the other: I have gotten pushback from people (usually devs at clients of mine) for saying it’s lunacy to run a real, actual business on Mongo. (This has always happened from orgs with <10TB of data in the database.)

You’d be astounded how common it is at so-called “enterprise” startups. It blew my mind.

A lot of people simply never went through the LAMP stack days and have little/no experience with real databases like Postgres (or even MySQL). It’s disheartening.



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