MongoDB’s popularity among managers during its peak was largely down to the idea that you no longer needed a database expert. Just throw the data into the document DB puddle and let your existing less-specialised developers handle it. The promise of the document database during the peak of their hype was that you didn’t need to employ as many specialists.
interesting to think about how this applies on two levels:
- if you're a small company (or a company with a small need for developers), then this kind of push towards common tools means you can get one or two generalists to handle everything
- if you're a large company, then you're thinking about your tools through the eyes of - how can we quickly recruit enough bodies to make this stuff work
in either case you end up with the same thing this article is describing
