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Re:MongoDB queries don’t always return all matching documents by jdavis703 on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @10:30PM (#11859596)
Did they make the company a lot more money than they cost? If so they were probably a good idea. Not all code needs to be "pretty" to serve a purpose. I've seen some pretty epic hacks that I know generated hundreds of thousands of dollars of new revenue.
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Re:MongoDB queries don’t always return all matching documents by im_down_w_otp on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @10:46PM (#11859647)
They often had a significant "bus factor" problem as a result of this in the best cases, and in the worst cases these mountains of hacks were a massive impediment to growth and/or evolution to meet changing marketplace demands... despite being a central pillar of data management and revenue as it existed in the status quo.
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