The project started out as a minor one, but after a few successes it kind of snowballed. If I didn't had those earlier successes, I would have introspected about my decisions earlier. Unfortunately I got fooled into thinking otherwise. These small successes turned out to be red herrings. Also, it's hard not to give into mass hysteria and perhaps I wanted to taste the impracticability for myself. Thus, despite reading all about node.js, nosql and their horrors, I got greedy.