I recently attended five Java User Groups (JUGs) in Europe and the Pacific Northwest, where I was well-received by packed audiences interested in NoSQL and Couchbase. I appreciate Couchbase's "lean, clean and mean" approach, similar to Unix and Java in their early days, which aligns with its "simple, fast and elastic" theme. However, when discussing enterprise features with JUG attendees, concerns about long-lived transactions, joins, and other complexities arose, highlighting the need for a balance between adding features and maintaining simplicity. I hope developers and customers will continue to push Couchbase in the direction of simplicity, speed, and elasticity while introducing new features to make it more appealing for enterprise adoption.