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...

Working in Technical Services at MongoDB I find that time and again customers need assistance understanding why the operations they’ve created indexes for may not be performing optimally. When prov...

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...

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Labyrinth is a 1986 graphic adventure game based on the fantasy film Labyrinth, which tasks yo...

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Transylvania is an adventure game from 1982 that follows the player on a quest to rescue Princ...

When you’re monitoring your cluster using Ops Manager or MongoDB Atlas and the Replication Oplog Window is (X) drastically drops, what can you do? Having a very short operations log (oplog) wind...

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Shadowgate is a black-and-white 1987 point-and-click adventure video game originally for the A...

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom (サラダの国のトマト姫, Sarada no Kuni no Tomato Hime) is an adventu...

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Though I’m pretty sure I played King’s Quest first, Space Quest is the game that really stands o...

This page is a list of the reviewed games from the “Let’s Adventure!” series, sorted by rating. 84% Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter (Sierra On-Line) - 1986 81% King’s Quest: Quest for the C...