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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What's our fancy new London office like? A collection of history, tech, pictures and thoughts on our new working space in Chiswick, West London.

10th March, 2015 Read more

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