&gt; You can argue, and I would largely agree, that this is actually part of MongoDB&#x27;s brilliant marketing strategy, of sacrificing engineering quality in order to get to market faster and build a hype machine, with the idea that the engineering will follow later.<p>Author nearly lost me here with this logic. Placing Marketing ahead of quality in something that is supposed to store a <i>very</i> valuable asset (data) is near insanity.<p>I get the mindset of &quot;break fast&quot;, &quot;release often&quot;, etc. in terms of customer facing <i>features</i>, but in something that is supposed to be a core part of your foundation, stability is if utmost importance. Otherwise nothing else works - and you lose customers, business, opportunities - because you can&#x27;t look them up later.<p>Its not &quot;brilliant marketing&quot;, its just marketing.