Agreed. Too often we hear of new tech via "this is the best thing ever" commentary, followed a few months later by the inevitable "actually that thing sucks" co

Agreed. Too often we hear of new tech via "this is the best thing ever" commentary, followed a few months later by the inevitable "actually that thing sucks" commentary. Much better is "here are the trade offs, based on actual usage" commentary like this. I wish there was more stuff like this during the first wave of NoSQL mania.