https://github.com/dwight/bsontools These utilities are designed to allow you to manipulate BSON files from the command line with some ease. A BSON file is a “flat” binary file of contigu...
There are a few alternatives. One is the BSON implementation inside the MongoDB C++ Driver . It is not hard to use the BSON implementation only, if that’s all you need. Note on github yo...
This may be reporting of the completely obvious these days to drivers : you get in your car, it has a GPS navigation system, you can use it, but then again, you can do the same thing with your sm...
Bonus - 15 years of CD buying, and now they are automagically in the cloud without me doing anything.
SCHEMA DESIGN TACTICS : GROUPING SMALL ENTITIES FOR GREATER CACHE EFFICIENCY This is a somewhat standard pattern that would apply to most databases, including MongoDB, but is worth mentioning I...
data-centers-are-too-reliable-sort-of passwords-considered-harmful http://web-ops.tumblr.com/post/5042205512/ebs-durability http://dmerr.tumblr.com/post/510951515/chain-replication-is-in...
MongoDB (which I work on) is at the feature-rich end of the spectrum of NoSQL products. Not compared to Oracle, but compared to say, Amazon Dynamo. This was intentional. The goal was to creat...
“I’m sorry, I can’t answer your call right now, my phone is garbage collecting.”
Please do this.
Imagine if by default all wifi access points publish a “Public
There are several things in the new gmail UI that I like but several that leave me scratching my head; see image (click to expand). Mainly, the switch from text buttons to icons. Can you tell...
Long ago in the early days of DoubleClick (really early) we built a data center out of our mail room. We filled it to the brim. It would get very warm and we used up all the power in the buil...
This question leads to madness.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27194/
I’m sure I’ll get some argument on this, but don’t use pair<>. Except when you are using something already requiring it, such as stl classes and stl algorithms. Instead of pair, wh...
SSD storage technology is massively useful. However, it seems to be unavailable in cloud computing offerings (at least the ones I know about). This seems an obvious gap in those solutions. ...
I have tried the Google two step authentication, and it is…a pain. With several browsers and a couple operating systems on my laptop, it’s asking me to verify on SMS for every single one of...
It seems the cost today is about $2 / GB and dropping at a good clip. The Intel 320 drives are interesting as historically on low cost style SSDs write iops have been lower than reads (albeit s...
Google’s strategy with search has worked out perfectly : basically, continual incremental improvement. No one can catch up. A good example is this search: http://www.google.com/search?q=u...
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