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Shutterfly is looking for: Staff Engineer
September 24, 2010
Shutterfly is looking for: Staff Engineer – Platform #job
MongoDB: Lagged Replica with Replica Sets
August 24, 2010
In an enterprise database architecture, it’s very common to create a standby or replica database with a ‘lag’ in it’s...
OSX + Bit.ly
August 9, 2010
A couple months ago I didn’t even know what bit.ly was, I was using tinyurl for everything. Sheez, how web 1.0 of me....
Why Not Auto Increment in MongoDB
August 4, 2010
I came across this blog post with a nice pattern for auto-increment in MongoDB. It’s a great post, but there is somet...
mongo_graph: a rrdtool graphing utility for MongoDB
July 23, 2010
I just uploaded a little utility that pulls performance data from MongoDB and loads it into rrdtool for trending and ...
Data clustering in MongoDB using embedded docs
June 25, 2010
I wrote a while ago about how to cluster data to save cash. This post was geared towards relational stores. But in re...
mongostat
June 21, 2010
The MongoDB command line performance monitoring utility named mongostat is now (well since 1.3.3) part of the core di...
Wayback Machine: snapshots still valid technique
May 10, 2010
I came across this old article I wrote for the NOCOUG newsletter in 2002 about using OS snapshots for backups. This t...