The love of Data, Database Engineering, Architecture, Entrepreneurship, and other assorted bits
09 May 2006 The benefits of testing
09 Jun 2006 Performance Tuning: Be Proactive
09 Mar 2008 Backing up Oracle optimizer statistics
09 Mar 2008 now on WordPress
09 Mar 2008 Python and cx_oracle
11 Mar 2008 Memory sizing for PostgreSQL
23 Mar 2008 Primary Keys for Slony-I
31 Mar 2008 Python/cx_Oracle utility functions
10 Apr 2008 The next breed of DBA’s?
18 Apr 2008 int vs bigint
30 Apr 2008 Incremental Commits in PostgreSQL
18 Jun 2008 Mapping Linux memory for PostgreSQL using fincore
24 Jun 2008 pg_standby lag monitoring
02 Jul 2008 Python script showing PostgreSQL objects in linux memory: pg_osmem.py
30 Jul 2008 Open source databases; scaling the application stack.
16 Sep 2008 Unique identifier for a database without connecting to the database?
21 Oct 2008 pgstat: a database utility like iostat
05 Nov 2008 Graphing pgstat output
12 Dec 2008 Tuning for very large shared_buffers, using Veritas VxFS
13 Feb 2009 Cluster data, save cash
03 Mar 2009 pgstat 0.8beta released on PgFoundry
27 May 2009 Fusion-io SSD
25 Jun 2009 pg_reorg 1.0.4
10 Nov 2009 pgstat 1.0 released
07 Dec 2009 Hello Shutterfly
09 Feb 2010 mongostat 0.2b
02 Mar 2010 mongodb 1.3.3 (devel) with mongostat
15 Mar 2010 Dropping ACID
01 Apr 2010 The death of a Sun
03 May 2010 MongoSF Slides
10 May 2010 Wayback Machine: snapshots still valid technique
11 May 2010 MongoSF; Video’s up
21 Jun 2010 mongostat
21 Jun 2010 WordPress 3.0
25 Jun 2010 Data clustering in MongoDB using embedded docs
23 Jul 2010 mongo_graph: a rrdtool graphing utility for MongoDB
04 Aug 2010 Why Not Auto Increment in MongoDB
09 Aug 2010 OSX + Bit.ly
24 Aug 2010 MongoDB: Lagged Replica with Replica Sets
24 Sep 2010 Shutterfly is looking for: Staff Engineer
05 Nov 2010 I am speaking at MongoSV 2010
09 Dec 2010 Sharing Life’s Joy using MongoDB: A Shutterfly Case Study
06 Jan 2011 Interview on NoSQLDatabases.com
01 Feb 2011 GigaOM article – Real World NoSQL: MongoDB at Shutterfly
01 Feb 2011 PGEast and MongoDB?
15 Apr 2011 MongoSF 2011
25 May 2011 MongoSF 2011 slides: MongoDB Performance Tuning
28 Jul 2011 Stellar use cases for MongoDB
07 Nov 2011 I am speaking at the MongoSV 2011 conference
06 Dec 2011 MySQL/Hbase tech talk at FB
15 Dec 2011 Masters of MongoDB
15 Dec 2011 MongoSV follow up
20 Jan 2012 SOPA and PIPA explained
04 Feb 2012 Chevrolet Volt
01 May 2012 Mongoperf
09 May 2012 Hello ObjectRocket
14 Aug 2012 Upcoming performance tuning presentation at MongoDB Seattle
22 Aug 2012 code-fest
24 Aug 2012 Charity: Homes for our Troops
19 Sep 2012 MongoSeattle Recap
02 Oct 2012 QConSF, save $100, donate some food!
15 Oct 2012 MongoSeattle Slides
14 Nov 2012 QConSF 2012 slides
05 Dec 2012 MongoSV 2012 Slides
03 Jan 2013 MongoSV Video; MongoDB Performance Tuning
15 Jan 2013 ObjectRocket Launches
16 Jan 2013 MongoDB Austin
25 Jan 2013 320BonesyBoostrapped WordPressification
22 May 2013 Profiler Deep Dive; MongoSF 2013
13 Feb 2014 Scaling MongoDB – Sharding Into and Beyond the Multi-Terabyte Range
02 Aug 2014 hello, again!
02 Aug 2014 MongoDB World 2014 Keynote from Kenny Gorman
11 Aug 2014 MongoDB profiler helpful queries
20 Aug 2014 NOAA ocean data - A MongoDB example
08 Sep 2014 My next chapter at Rackspace
16 Sep 2014 TokuMX space usage with various compression schemes
18 Sep 2014 The history of mongostat
21 Oct 2014 Ansible for Database Management
20 Nov 2014 Thank you England and WTF Big Data.
03 Dec 2014 Interview in Admin Magazine
04 Dec 2014 MongoDB 2.8 authentication mechanism changes
29 Jan 2015 Data storage technology choices, we live in great times
11 Feb 2015 Load testing MongoDB with sysbench-mongodb and Ansible
02 Apr 2015 MongoDB Austin Meetup; MongoDB 3.0
14 May 2015 Partially D podcast and beer for dinner
30 Jun 2015 Gaining perspective on the fallen
06 Aug 2015 Percona Live Europe 2015
31 Aug 2015 My favorite Atom editor settings
23 Oct 2015 PGConf Silicon Valley 2015
18 Apr 2016 Hello Eventador Labs
12 May 2016 Displaying JSON in psql
23 Dec 2016 2016 Retrospective
02 Jan 2017 Securing Cloud Data Services
27 Jan 2017 Tactical Command Line Kafka
30 Jul 2017 What is Apache Kafka? How is it similar to the databases you know and love, and how it's not.
07 Nov 2017 From Zero to Stream Processing
06 Dec 2017 PostgreSQL + Ansible one liners
23 Oct 2019 Flink Forward Berlin Recap
05 Nov 2019 Atom editor Javascript and Nashorn