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MongoDB content modelling without losing discipline
A document database is flexible, but useful content systems still need explicit shapes, indexes and migration strategy.
Flexibility helps content evolve; it should not mean every document has an accidental schema.
Model around access patterns
Keep content, users, enquiries and comments in separate collections. Query by stable fields such as kind, slug, publication state and creation date.
Use application validation
Typed Rust structures provide defaults for older documents while admin forms enforce title, slug, summary, SEO and image rules.
Migrate intentionally
Version editorial seeds and make migrations idempotent. Never overwrite arbitrary editor-created records just because the service restarted.
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