Author Archives: kchodorow

MapReduce – The Fanfiction

MapReduce is really cool, useful, and powerful, but a lot of people find it hard to wrap their heads around. This post is a fairly silly, non-technical explanation using Star Trek. The Enterprise found a new planet, as it tends to do. Kirk wanted to beam down immediately and start surveying the planet but SpockContinue reading “MapReduce – The Fanfiction”

Sleepy.Mongoose: A MongoDB HTTP Interface

The first half of the MongoDB book is due this week, so I wrote a REST interface for Mongo (I’m a prolific procrastinator).  Anyway, it’s called Sleepy.Mongoose and it’s available at https://github.com/10gen-labs/sleepy.mongoose. Installing Sleepy.Mongoose Install MongoDB. Install the Python driver: $ easy_install pymongo Download Sleepy.Mongoose. From the mongoose directory, run: $ python httpd.py You’ll seeContinue reading “Sleepy.Mongoose: A MongoDB HTTP Interface”

“Introduction to MongoDB” Video

This is the video of the talk I gave last Sunday at the NoSQL Devroom at FOSDEM. It’s about why MongoDB was created, what it’s good at (and a bit about what it’s not good for), the basic syntax for it and how sharding and replication work (it covers a lot of ground). You canContinue reading ““Introduction to MongoDB” Video”

St. Clementine’s Day

The night before Valentine’s Day, I got Andrew a crate of clementines (they’re already gone).  Yesterday, the Doghouse Diaries ran: I came down with a cold on Friday and neither of us wanted to do anything for Valentine’s Day so we ended up playing Legend of Zelda most of it. When we got hungry, we startedContinue reading “St. Clementine’s Day”

Mongo Mailbag #2: Updating GridFS Files

Welcome to week two of Mongo Mailbag, where I take a question from the Mongo mailing list and answer it in more detail. If you have a question you’d like to see answered in excruciating detail, feel free to email it to me. Is it possible (with the PHP driver) to storeBytes into GridFS (forContinue reading “Mongo Mailbag #2: Updating GridFS Files”