Also lost to history is 10gen's original intent of being more of a complete platform, with Mongo just being the storage layer. Business Insider ran on that platform. Some details in https://www.usv.com/blog/10gen
(A friend of mine was VP Eng there and was trying to recruit me to work on the larger platform, but as Mongo started gaining traction they dropped the other parts to focus on that)
(A friend of mine was VP Eng there and was trying to recruit me to work on the larger platform, but as Mongo started gaining traction they dropped the other parts to focus on that)