I'm not a back-end dev strictly. I played with mongo on some side projects back when it was all hyped up. One thing that appealed to me was the on-boarding proc

I'm not a back-end dev strictly. I played with mongo on some side projects back when it was all hyped up. One thing that appealed to me was the on-boarding process for a non "database guy". I got lots of small side projects up and running very quickly and the concepts made sense. Similar to jQuery being easy to understand and popular to newcomers but you later learn it isn't always the best tool for the job.