Kristina Chodorow

A little disappointing, but worth a read anyway. I was attracted by the list of titles for the tips and was expecting some hardcore unpacking of a few gnarly and topical issues (like embedded doc performance at different scales), but too often the "tips" are just brief borderline-motherhood statements, and although described in MongoDB terms are sometimes simply generally applicable design principles that we all probably know already.

Two things could have made this a better book:
1: more code for a deeper investigation of each "tip";
2: more proof reading/copy editing - too many convoluted and ambiguous paragraphs that you have to stop and pull apart in order to try and interpret what the author is trying to say (which is usually something quite simple that has just been obscured by bad prose).

Overall it seems like this book was rushed out a little too quickly with a lack of care and attention ... But then again, this is just a little books of tips, so can't complain too much.… (mehr)

A little disappointing, but worth a read anyway. I was attracted by the list of titles for the tips and was expecting some hardcore unpacking of a few gnarly and topical issues (like embedded doc performance at different scales), but too often the "tips" are just brief borderline-motherhood statements, and although described in MongoDB terms are sometimes simply generally applicable design principles that we all probably know already.

Two things could have made this a better book:
1: more code for a deeper investigation of each "tip";
2: more proof reading/copy editing - too many convoluted and ambiguous paragraphs that you have to stop and pull apart in order to try and interpret what the author is trying to say (which is usually something quite simple that has just been obscured by bad prose).

Overall it seems like this book was rushed out a little too quickly with a lack of care and attention ... But then again, this is just a little books of tips, so can't complain too much.… (mehr)