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Co-founder of Bugsnag . Worked at Heyzap in San Francisco across their entire software stack. Before moving to the bay area, I worked for 6 years in the telecoms and finance industries in the UK as a Software Engineer and Project Manager.

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Things I wish I knew about MongoDB a year ago

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I’ve used MongoDB for over a year at scale at both Heyzap and Bugsnag and I’ve found it to be a very capable database. As with all databases, there are some gotchas, and here is a summary of the things I wish someone had told me earlier.