Yes, yes I did. My question is why it was selected in the first place, rather than a period of exploration of the benefits and drawbacks of the different NoSQL solutions (which perhaps might have stopped this particular test-case from being a failure). The article doesn't mention those details though.
Also, we DO implement a two DB setup... Couchbase and MySQL. They both have their place.
I don't think you read it very carefully; the second sentence links to the earlier article where they list the reasons they chose that tech over others.
> I wrote about what I was thinking at the time here [1]
Also, we DO implement a two DB setup... Couchbase and MySQL. They both have their place.