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Re:You are not a software engineer (2011) by vinceguidry on Monday November 11, 2013 @06:08PM (#6714736)
I downvoted you before I realized that you coming at this from a position of ignorance rather than ego.

Mongo is a way of storing 'stuff'. You don't have to define the form that the stuff takes before you shove it in the database. This makes things easier by lowering the knowledge barrier to getting started, which is a double-edged sword.

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Re:You are not a software engineer (2011) by Widdershin on Monday November 11, 2013 @06:13PM (#6714758)
What I've gathered is that the tradeoff of not having to deal with schema migrations now is something I'll have to pay for with data integrity down the road. Do you think that's a good summation?
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Re:You are not a software engineer (2011) by vinceguidry on Monday November 11, 2013 @06:15PM (#6714776)
Yes, that's an excellent way of putting it.
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Re:You are not a software engineer (2011) by Widdershin on Monday November 11, 2013 @06:35PM (#6714866)
Right. Thanks for the help. I'm gonna move back to Postgres.
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