Skills I Was Missing as a Mongodb User
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I'd also like to understand whether there are still any cases when MongoDB is the right choice
I had such a bad experience with Mongo DB that I will absolutely never use it again, and will never recommend that anyone else use it either.
This alone will get you 90% of the benefits of Mongo DB but with the full power of Postgres for everything else:
I've worked in Mongo enough to know that whatever decision I make will end up being wrong.
What i will never understand is why mongo doesn't have some simple means of document referencing that automatically updates documents a doc is embedded in. If it's such an important pattern that every app needs to reinvent for itself, just add it to the system.