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by nemild 2743 days ago
I think you'll enjoy the series then, I spent several months investigating and made the same point about JSON and the Javascript-like CLI (plus great Node support, plus savvy marketing). For example:

> 10gen's key contributions to databases — and to our industry — was their laser focus on four critical things: onboarding, usability, libraries and support. For startup teams, these were important factors in choosing MongoDB — and a key reason for its powerful word of mouth.

Startup Engineers and Our Mistakes with MongoDB

https://www.nemil.com/mongo/2.html

The Marketing Behind MongoDB

https://www.nemil.com/mongo/3.html

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Halfway into part two, this is very good so far. Thank you for the effort you put in (it really does show throughout).