[notyourday]

Two things:

1. I embraced that Perfection is a mortal enemy of It Works. Our customers pay us for it to work now, not be perfect at some point in future.

This allowed us to save millions of dollars a month and made us a viable going concern.

2. "Mongodb is Webscale" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

We aren't Google. We don't have Google-level global problems that we need to solve. Anything below Google level can be solved using boring technologies that just work.

This allowed us to significantly and rapidly improve customer experience.