When running a ExpressJS based API or Website, you may want to add new routes without restarting your ExpressJS host. Actually, adding routes to ExpressJS at runtime is pretty simple.
When using a NoSQL database like MongoDb, most of the time you'll have documents that contain all properties by itself. But there are also scenarios where you might encounter the need for a more relational approach and need to reference other documents by the ObjectIds.
On a developer machine you might have to install multiple versions of MongoDB or you might want to run multiple MongoDB server instances. Both can be done easily using mongoctl.
The title of this post might sound a bit scenic, but 2014 indeed has been a year of goodbys for me - at least regarding software development. As almost every leave also is a fresh start, lots of things have changed.