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01 February 2011
When I first started playing with MongoDB I accidentially posted my posts in a category that got them put up on Planet PostgreSQL. I remember getting some pretty pissed off emails and comments. Beyond just my mistake such that the posting was on the incorrect blog, people seemed pretty pissed off about NoSQL in general. I remember thinking how closed minded that was. These are all different tools for different jobs, not a religion.
01 February 2011
Guy Harrison has a series of articles on real world NoSQL deployments over at GigaOM. The second installment was on MongoDB where he interviewed me on our deployment at Shutterfly. Check out Real World NoSQL: MongoDB at Shutterfly by Guy Harrison.
06 January 2011
The folks over at NoSQLDatabases.com have posted an interview they did with me on our implementation of MongoDB at Shutterfly. Good folks, great blog. Here is a link to the article. I talk a lot about what we have done at Shutterfly, In particular one item I discuss is ORM’s and the promise of not using heavyweight mappers in a non-relational architecture. I also talk a bit about the challenges and benefits of modeling data as documents. I hope it’s helpful for folks thinking about using something like MongoDB.
09 December 2010
The video of the presentation, Sharing Life’s Joy using MongoDB: A Shutterfly Case Study, I gave at MongoSV is now online. Nice job editing the slides in 10gen!
05 November 2010
I am excited to announce I will be speaking at the MongoSV conference Dec 3 2010. My talk, Sharing Life’s Joy using MongoDB: A Shutterfly Case Study will be focused on how we have been using MongoDB here at Shutterfly over the last year. I plan to outline some of the specific cases where MongoDB has been a massive win and some areas to be careful of if you are planning your own MongoDB application. This is a follow on to my previous talk at MongoSF with more technical depth. I will show code examples and various use cases outlining parts of our journey.
24 September 2010
Shutterfly is looking for: Staff Engineer – Platform
http://jobvite.com/m?35y6Xfwq #job