Broken by Design: MongoDB Fault Tolerance
hackingdistributed.com/2013/01/29/mongo-ft
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And us geeks are no better. There is no shortage of valley startups where component selection is based on hearsay alone, where group-think and blog noise determine what components get used, and frankensoftware is pieced together by slapping together components without thinking about how they mesh together. I want to focus on just one popular software component today, called MongoDB.