The love of Data, Database Engineering, Architecture, Entrepreneurship, and other assorted bits
21 June 2010
The MongoDB command line performance monitoring utility named mongostat is now (well since 1.3.3) part of the core distribution of Mongodb. The python version hosted on my site is now deprecated in lieu of the C++ version in the distro.
11 May 2010
The videos from MongoSF are starting to get posted now on the 10gen site. The presentations are there too. Here is my talk:
10 May 2010
I came across this old article I wrote for the NOCOUG newsletter in 2002 about using OS snapshots for backups. This technique is still very much a valid and widely used technique to perform backups. The idea is simple:
03 May 2010
I had a great time at the MongoSF Conference on Friday. There were a ton of great presentations, and lots and lots of excitement. A big thanks to 10gen for inviting me to speak. I had a great time and I hope everyone learned a lot from our experiences so far with MongoDB. I especially liked Mike Dirolf’s discussion on Python and pymongo. There have been lots of changes as of late, and most of them fantastic!
01 April 2010
15 March 2010
The de-facto durability story in MongoDB is essentially… there is none. Or at least single server durability. OMFG! No ACID WTF! &^%#^#?!
As I was shutting down my last Sun server in my colo, I was thinking back about how things have changed. It’s sad to see such a great company