In today’s clusters made of commodity servers, failures are the norm. Having your code fail because one data node happened to be down when you were querying it is frustrating and no fun. Based on my experience hardening our product, I wanted to share a few quick and easy pointers that can help make your […]
MongoDB Atlas: One Giant Leap, But More Steps Needed
Atlas, holding up your databases in the cloud. I’m not sure if that’s what MongoDB was going for, but I personally like the analogy. At MongoDB World’16, MongoDB announced Atlas, a database-as-a-service offering (in the cloud) of the company’s popular open-source NoSQL database. Rather than dealing with the complexities of setting up, provisioning and configuring […]
Backup and Recovery of MongoDB, Part 2
This blog is the second in a two-part series on backup and recovery for MongoDB. In one of my previous blogs, I covered why companies require both replication and backup for enterprise grade data protection. And in the first part of this blog series, I discussed the existing solutions for backup and recovery of MongoDB […]
Using MongoDB for a Product Catalog Application
In today’s era of data-driven business, enterprises are continuously adopting new technologies to gain a competitive advantage. Distributed and cloud databases is one such technology. These databases are fundamentally different from relational databases, offering scalability, availability and flexible data models that are beyond the capabilities of traditional relational databases. MongoDB is one of the leading […]
What is JSON? How Do I Use It? Does It Beat BSON?
TL;DR: If you’ve ever wondered about JSON—what it is, how to use it or what it has to do with BSON—then you’ve come to the right place. In this article I’ll explore what these acronyms stand for and what these formats do in the world of programming and databases. What is JSON? JSON stands for […]
Backup and Recovery of Next Gen Apps in MongoDB
This blog is the first in a two-part series about MongoDB backup and recovery. In this first part, I will discuss the motivations for protecting data that resides on MongoDB and the existing backup and recovery solutions. In the second part, I will discuss how to solve this problem. In the era of big data, […]
Enterprise Cassandra Deployments
Successful Cassandra deployment in the cloud takes a certain amount of skill and knowledge. In this blog I will share best practices for a successful Cassandra deployment in the cloud such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). I will also discuss how you can protect and recover the data in your Cassandra […]
New CEO wants to take MongoDB where NoSQL has gone before
MongoDB, the leading NoSQL database company that has raised about $220m in venture funding so far, announced a change at the helm today. Max Schireson who has been with the company for 4 years, first as President and then about two years ago taking over as CEO from founder and chairman Dwight Merriman, is stepping […]
Deploying a MongoDB Cluster with ElasticBox
Our founders, back in the day, were part of the .NET framework team at Microsoft. So it’s no surprise that their first version of ElasticBox was written on C#, .NET framework and SQL Server. Fast forward to 2012. As the ElasticBox vision crystallized, we wanted a robust, scalable architecture to match our vision. So we reevaluated all the existing technologies. Among other things, we […]
What’s new @DevOps.com
All of us here at staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud have been very busy. In addition to adding some new writers and great new content, we have been working “outside the 4 walls of the website”. Here is an update on what’s new: 1. Camp DevOps – We held our first Camp DevOps event last week in beautiful Boulder, […]