As I watch the mongodb mailing list and the IRC channel I have come to understand that there is a lack of understanding about the mongodb oplog. While most of this information can be found in the mongodb online documentation I figured I’d make a blog about it to make it more clear for some
I had an interesting conversation with my development team and my DBA team specifically regarding how to identify when to shard. Currently we are using Zabbix to monitor multiple mongodb servers using the mikoomi Zabbix template and php script. If you aren’t leveraging Zabbix for monitoring your infrastructure then you should check it out, its
I wanted to write a blog post about my experience with how mongodb has evolved how I hated it and grew to love it. I think mongodb is a GREAT opensource product and even better the company behind it is amazing (hopefully no one takes my early criticism to harshly).
I was tasked with the job of assisting my company with the operationalization of emerging technologies such as mongodb. Specifically how we can automate many of the manual steps involved with upgrades, backup and recovery and even deployment. Today, I want to talk about how to handle rolling upgrades of mongodb with fabric and puppet.