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If you can convince your business folks to run shit on the command-line then there is basically no need for services ever. I know it sounds insane but its how it was done in the old days and there really is only a false barrier to doing it again.

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Place I worked had support staff copy-pasting mongo queries from google docs -- worked in the early days but eventually you have to start building an admin interface for more complicated processes

When it was just mongo installs are easy since they only needed a mongo desktop client

Terminal can handle auth.

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