As a high-tech startup, MongoDB gave no real thought to IT as it was getting off the ground. Laptops were purchased on an as-needed basis by individual employees and expensed alongside printer paper and working lunches. Free cloud applications like Google Apps and Dropbox were the go-to productivity tools, and engineers coding the company's product, a NoSQL database, were certainly tech-savvy enough to spin up servers and troubleshoot problems on their own. Yet as the company launched into hypergrowth mode, ballooning from four employees in 2009 to 330 in four years, it had to adjust the way it handled IT. The tipping point came in 2012 when MongoDB hit about 70 employees, many of whom weren't developers.
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