[cwyers]

> the amazing thing about MongoDB is that, despite all the vitriol against it, it continues to be used at companies and projects that are far greater than what many naysayers ever touch: Stripe and Wish.com immediately come to my mind.

I honestly don't know if that mitigates against a lot of the MongoDB hate you see around here (including my post above). If I was at a place like Stripe and that money to pay Aphyr to battle-test all my database systems and an ops staff the handle all the issues that he found, then I could maybe deploy MongoDB successfully. I'd also have the sort of really, really hard problems that require me to spend that kind of resources on the problem. MongoDB is a much, much worse choice for those of us who DON'T have those needs and resources, though.