When I was growing up in the 80’s my favourite games to play were adventure games. I’ve always found myself going back to this genre, and as I grew up and moved into software development the ScummV...
Optimizing MongoDB Compound Indexes - The "Equality - Sort - Range" (ESR) Rule
UPDATE DOCS-11790 has finally been implemented and as a result the MongoDB public documentation now contains a tutorial for The ESR (Equality, Sort, Range) Rule!!! Working in Technical Servi...
Recovering a WiredTiger collection from a corrupt MongoDB installation
April, 1 2019: I've received a LOT of feedback on this article since it was published. I would like to point out that although the methods described here may still work, MongoDB introduced a --rep...
Hello Product Management
Past My MongoDB Career Journey began almost 4 years ago, and I’ve enjoyed my time as a Technical Services Engineer immensely. During my tenure as part of the organization I had the opportunity to ...
Just Finished - Terranigma
This has been a long time coming. I took a run at Terranigma in 2015 and failed miserably, but I was such a huge fan of the other Quintet titles for the SNES I just couldn’t leave this unfinished...
MongoDB Driver Monitoring
TODO: PHP https://gist.github.com/jmikola/dfcad9bc4e512b22dbb04beed4dc0a99 / https://www.php.net/manual/en/mongodb.tutorial.apm.php One of the great things about MongoDB Drivers is that they a...
Blue Force (Tsunami Games) - 1993
This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Since I just finished playing Police Quest 1 I figured I’ll stick with the “police work simulato...
Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel (Sierra On-Line) - 1987
This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel is an adventure game (and police simulation) produce...
Performance Analysis of Resuming a MongoDB Change Stream
Change Streams allow applications to access real-time data changes without the complexity and risk of tailing the oplog. Applications can use change streams to subscribe to all data changes on a si...
Cleaning Up ETL Results in MongoDB by Transposing Multiple Arrays
When performing an ETL from a normalized relational dataset there’s a good chance a 1:1 conversion won’t produce the desired results on the first pass. For example, if the goal is to Model One-to-M...