Articles by Jason McCay
Horizontal Scaling arrives on Compose Enterprise
Today, Compose is bringing horizontal scaling to more databases on our Enterprise platform. MongoDB, Elasticsearch and Scylla…
Feature Highlight: maxTimeMS in MongoDB 2.6
It's probably happened to you before -- you have an idea in your head and you want to run an operation against your database…
Security: MongoHQ Response to OpenSSL "Heartbleed" Vulnerability
The Operations team at MongoHQ has been working diligently, since yesterday, to correct any exposure that our systems had to…
MongoDB Indexing Best Practices
Going “Best Practice” on any topic is an expansive statement. But, we will give it a go with some high level anti-patterns an…
MongoDB Atlanta 2013
The MongoHQ Team is in Atlanta today, sponsoring and presenting at MongoDB Atlanta. This conference, in its third year at at…
Converting Data to Metrics - MongoDB Analytics Part 2
In part one of ”First Steps of an Analytics Platform with MongoDB”, we discussed how to build an efficient logging portion of…
MongoDB 2.4.1 Maintenance Window Complete
The maintenance window to upgrade MongoDB for all of our shared environments has been completed. Why the forced upgrade? This…
MongoDB 2.4 & the New Version Selector
Today, 10gen announced the final production release of MongoDB 2.4. As we have talked about in previous blog posts, this rele…
Experience With CircleCI
We are now using CircleCI to automatically test and deploy our NodeJS services. The business-marketing term for this is “Cont…
Now Available: $100 SSD Replica Sets, Beta Autoscaling
We’ve been working hard on our underlying database infrastructure for the last several months in silence (mostly). Today, we’…
MongoDB 2.4.0-rc0 Available on MongoHQ
The future is now! Are you ready to upgrade your staging Replica Set to MongoDB 2.4.0-rc0 in preparation of the 2.4.0 release…
MongoHQ Teammates Participate in the Mercedes Marathon
This past weekend, Kristine Toone and Dusty Hall competed in the Mercedes Marathon in Birmingham, AL. Kristine completed the…
Explore MongoDB 2.3 on MongoHQ
There are some interesting and exciting changes coming to MongoDB in the 2.4 production release, including: Full-text search…
MongoHQ in Silicon Valley for MongoSV 2012!
Once again this year, the team at MongoHQ is excited to sponsor and be a part of 10gen’s 2012 MongoSV Conference. It’s a grea…
MongoHQ Is Excited to Sponsor Node Knockout 2012
We’re excited to announce that we are sponsoring Node Knockout for its third year! This has really become the event for showc…