When I started at Kobo, we needed to look beyond the relational and into document databases. Our initial technology choice didn't work out for us in terms of reliability, performance, or flexibility, so we looked for something new and set on a journey of discovery, exploratory testing, and having fun pushing contender technologies to their limits (and breaking them!). In this talk, you'll hear about our challenges, how we evaluated the options, and what our experience has been since widely adopting RavenDB. You'll learn about how we use it, areas we're still a bit wary of, and features we're eager to make more use of. I'll also dive into the key aspects of development - from how it affects our unit testing to the need for a "modern DBA" role on a development team.