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Re:A Year with MongoDB by sausagefeet on Saturday April 14, 2012 @08:51AM (#3840738)
> They get messy. Really messy. They become basically unmaintainable. Apples, oranges and pears all squashed into a schema the shape of a banana.

Moving it to your application doesn't solve this problem, it just pushes it out of the DB.

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Re:A Year with MongoDB by fabioferrari on Saturday April 14, 2012 @11:14AM (#3841053)
Exactly! In the best place you have to handle it. A nice API can make sense about the operation on the data and help it evolve.

These discussions always creates in my mind a picture of someone saying that we should be refilling all the forms that you have in a cabinet full of hand filled forms because someone decided that a new version of the form requires a new field like an e-mail address.

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