Month: March 2012

MongoDB When To Shard

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

MongoDB Evolution

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).

Rolling Mongodb Upgrades Using Fabric and Puppet

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.

Adding sun-java6-jdk On Ubuntu With Puppet

As you may or may not know Oracle (Sun) Java has been removed from all of the Ubuntu Repositories <LINK>. For many of us this is casing problems with our puppet manifests (well for me it certainly does) so here is how I have resolved the issue. I published a puppet module on github .