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...

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...