Fossils

This is a directory of old posts, organized by topic. It is manually curated, so it may not always be complete or up-to-date.

MongoDB

• Common misconceptions relational database developers bring to MongoDB
• Replica Sets
  • What are replica sets?
  • A practical introduction to replica sets
  • Replica set administration
  • Replication Internals 1: Introduction
  • Replication Internals 2: Getting to Know Your Oplog
  • Replication Internals 3: Bending the Oplog to Your Will
  • Replica Set Rollbacks
• Sharding
  • How to Choose a Shard Key – A Card Game
  • How sharding works
  • Practical replica sets + sharding
• Administration
  • Getting started with the MongoDB Monitoring Service
  • Ways to run MongoDB
  • A quick intro to mongosniff
  • Master-slave configuration
• Backup/recovery
  • Choose your own adventure: crash recovery edition
  • MongoDB backups and corn on the cob in 10 minutes
• Meta
  • History of MongoDB
• Fun stuff
• MongoSF recap
• Playing chess with MongoDB
• MongoDB Feedback
• Miscellaneous
  • MongoDB in Flatland: how geospatial indexing works
  • Updating GridFS files
  • How MapReduce works

Speaking and Writing

• Scaling MongoDB
• Writing MongoDB: The Definitive Guide
• Public speaking

NoSQL

• NoSQL Trolls
• NoSQL vs. the World

PHP

• Extension development
  • Tutorial, part 1: Setting up PHP
  • Tutorial, part 2: Hello, world
  • Tutorial, part 3: Working with the PHP API
  • Tutorial, part 4: Classes
  • Using references

Technology

• Playing with virtual memory
• Lorenz University: I can has degree

Working for 10gen

• On working at 10gen