As for being distracted by so-called "new technology" nothing could protect one from choosing over hyped crap like MongoDB but knowledge of underlying concepts.

As for being distracted by so-called "new technology" nothing could protect one from choosing over hyped crap like MongoDB but knowledge of underlying concepts. Recognizing and avoiding crap and a fraud is up to end-user. Otherwise one will end up running Java under Windows under VMware on Amazon AWS, as the best industry standard practice.) Or NodeJS as a "VM" with MongoDB as a "database".