Does everyone hate MongoDB?
A technical look at the recent why MongoDB sucks, why I'm migrating from MongoDB and goodbye MongoDB community posts. Is everyone leaving MongoDB?
25th September, 2012 Read more
80 Linux Monitoring Tools
The most comprehensive list of command line tools, network related monitoring, and log and infrastructure monitoring tools for Linux SysAdmins.
4th February, 2015 Read more
The tech behind our time series graphs – 2bn docs per day, 30TB per month
How Server Density uses MongoDB to process 2 billion documents per day, 30TB of data each month to power our time series server monitoring graphs.
14th March, 2014 Read more
Automatically watering your plants with sensors, a Pi and webhooks
Using moisture sensors, a Raspberry Pi, Server Density monitoring and web hook alerts to automatically monitor and water your plants.
19th December, 2013 Read more
Picking server hostnames
What rules and conventions should you use to pick server hostnames to make them useful? Server hostname guide and conventions.
23rd January, 2014 Read more
MongoDB on Google Compute Engine – tips and benchmarks
Performance benchmarks and hints/tips for using MongoDB on Google Compute Engine and Google Cloud Platform with persistent disks and MongoDB.
1st April, 2014 Read more
10 Ways to Secure Your Webapp
While there is no such thing as 100% secure, you can take measures to mitigate against a range of attacks and secure your webapp as much as possible.
27th August, 2015 Read more
How and why we use DevOps checklists
Having proved their worth in healthcare and aviation industries, checklists should belong in the DevOps playbook too. Here is how we use them.
11th August, 2015 Read more
Is Security a Growth Catalyst for DevOps?
Good security is not an add-on, a feature or a separate effort. It is an essential building block of our work.
20th August, 2015 Read more
Taming MongoDB with server monitoring
People like to write bad things about MongoDB, but my overall experience with MongoDB has been good. Let's talk you through how Feargal diagnoses problems.
27th November, 2014 Read more