I always wonder about kids who skip too many grades or who get college degree at 12. Even if they are intellectually there, socially life would be a nightmare. Imagine being a 12 year old which 17 year old peers. I can't imagine the emotional trauma!
I didn't do any IIT coaching and was able to prepare for IIT only for one year in my grade 11. After that I got some major health issue and was harassed by armed bullies in my school, so couldn't study at all in Grade 12. This made me miss Top 200 rank.
But this ended up being a blessing in disguise, because I couldn't get Computer Science at IIT. I have been passionate about computers since I was 8 years old. If I had studied Computer Science as a part of the course curriculum, I might have ended up hating it.
Instead I pursued Computer Science on mine own, based on my interest. I have loved it every single day!
I look forward to my work, versus most of my friends who feel trapped in their jobs!
I meant mongo support for sharing might be marketing fluff. As in they promise it works but it might be unreliable.
I have come to trust Mongo with CRUD on a document. Rest of the features might not work as well. Looks at the recent Jespen test for mongo ( https://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-4.2.6 )
I am not sure what is the exact use case. They could be using it for a non-critical data warehouse which could easily be recreated.
If you can deterministically determine your use case and are confident that mongo will fit it - it might be a good idea.
My concern which mongo is that is if you push the feature set, it will start falling apart at the seams.
Even though Postgres/MySql have some issues which can reduce the velocity of your team, if you absolutely want to be sure about data integrity and want full flexibility of evolving use case, they might serve better than mongo.
Thanks for raising this good point. I didn't get a chance to elaborate on this in my original post because it was getting too long and it was end of a long day.
The cost of adding a column is zero, in terms of schema migration. So that helps with developer velocity. We used an ORM (mongoose), so that we can have added constraints including default values. But Mongo did help us avoid the friction of adding columns.
I didn't do any IIT coaching and was able to prepare for IIT only for one year in my grade 11. After that I got some major health issue and was harassed by armed bullies in my school, so couldn't study at all in Grade 12. This made me miss Top 200 rank.
But this ended up being a blessing in disguise, because I couldn't get Computer Science at IIT. I have been passionate about computers since I was 8 years old. If I had studied Computer Science as a part of the course curriculum, I might have ended up hating it.
Instead I pursued Computer Science on mine own, based on my interest. I have loved it every single day!
I look forward to my work, versus most of my friends who feel trapped in their jobs!