One of the best product post-mortems that I've seen is the RethinkDB post from Slava: http://www.defmacro.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed.html http://www.d

One of the best product post-mortems that I've seen is the RethinkDB post from Slava: http://www.defmacro.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed.html http://www.defmacro.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed.html He does a great job describing how the "worse is better" essay plays out in the modern world, and how it played out for them in the OSS DB market.