O’Reilly – Kristina Chodorow's Blog

TDG Update

I just hit 300 pages! (O’Reilly has a nice system where it automatically compiles my XML into a PDF, so I can obsessively check page count). The last edition topped out at just over 200 pages, which was nice: you could actually sit down and read the thing in a reasonable amount of time andContinue reading “TDG Update”

Scaling, scaling everywhere

Interested in learning more about scaling MongoDB? Pick up September’s issue of PHP|Architect magazine, the database issue! I wrote an article on scaling your MongoDB database: how to choose good indexes, help handle load using replication, and set up sharding correctly (it’s not PHP-specific). If you prefer multimedia, I also did an O’Reilly webcast onContinue reading “Scaling, scaling everywhere”

Writing MongoDB: The Definitive Guide

MongoDB: The Definitive Guide is now available in bookstores everywhere! (Or at least on Amazon.) Please pick up a copy! Some interesting things I learned about the process of publishing: There are professional indexers who write the index. This amazes me, because we had to proofread our index and I’ve never been so bored inContinue reading “Writing MongoDB: The Definitive Guide”