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I am speaking at MongoSV 2010
November 5, 2010
I am excited to announce I will be speaking at the MongoSV conference Dec 3 2010. My talk, Sharing Life’s Joy using M...
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...
WordPress 3.0
June 21, 2010
On June 17th, WordPress 3.0 was launched. I decided to take the plunge and upgrade. There are just so many compelling...