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by throwoutway 1288 days ago
Asking “what did you think would happen” is arrogant. They probably did not know as much as you
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If you pick a technology to deploy within a company, you need to own the outcomes of that choice.

“I didn’t know” isn’t an acceptable excuse. When faced with unknowns, it’s your job to anticipate, mitigate, uncover problems, etc.

No one can know everything. That’s a fact. But these issues with Neo4j aren’t exactly hard to find. There are loads of folks who have talked about their negative experiences with it. Setting up a proof of concept would confirm them.