MongoSF Slides

May 3, 2010

I had a great time at the MongoSF Conference on Friday. There were a ton of great presentations, and lots and lots of...

The death of a Sun

April 1, 2010

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 ...

Dropping ACID

March 15, 2010

The de-facto durability story in MongoDB is essentially… there is none. Or at least single server durability. OMFG! N...

mongodb 1.3.3 (devel) with mongostat

March 2, 2010

mongostat 0.2b

February 9, 2010

I have been playing quite a bit with MongoDB lately. MongoDB is a nosql type database. It’s different than a simple k...

Hello Shutterfly

December 7, 2009

I am very excited to start a new position at Shutterfly.com. Shutterfly is a well known internet property with a mass...

pgstat 1.0 released

November 10, 2009

I added a couple of fixes to the code and released it as 1.0. We have been using it here at hi5 for some time w/o pro...

pg_reorg 1.0.4

June 25, 2009

At Hi5, we currently use pg_reorg1.0.3 in order to organize data in a clustered fashion. I posted previously about t...