I’ve been refactoring an application recently to move away from a proprietary and inflexible in memory datastore. The drawbacks of the proprietary datastore included the fact that the content was static. The only way to update data involved a build and replication process that took much longer than the stakeholders were willing to wait. The main selling point in favor of the in memory datastore was that it is blazing fast. And I mean blazing fast. My choice for a replacement datastore technology is MongoDB. MongoDB worked great, but the profiling and performance......

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