Articles by Kurt Mackey
Compose Is Joining IBM
Today we are excited to announce that Compose is joining IBM. As founders, it was the biggest and most important decision we'…
MongoHQ Is Now Compose, & Launching Elasticsearch
As you can probably tell, we've made a big change — our company is now called Compose. We've spent the last 5 years helping c…
MongoDB Elastic Deployments Now Available in Oregon
We have finally completed Oregon Trail (been trying since 5th grade). We're celebrating by launching Elastic Deployments opt…
MongoDB Elastic Deployments Now in Beta on DigitalOcean
Running your application on DigitalOcean? Now you can take advantage of the blazing fast SSDs and autoscaling that you get w…
Elastic Deployments Now Available in Australia
G'day Australia! We would like to let you all know that our Elastic Deployments are now available in Sydney. These represent…
How MongoHQ Uses HipChat to Connect a Distributed Team
This blog post is republished from the HipChat blog, co-authored by Elena Gorman. Since its conception MongoHQ has grown from…
How We Scale MongoDB
We recently launched Elastic Deployments for MongoDB, which represent the best method we've found for scaling customers' Mong…
Making Remote Work Work: An Adventure in Time & Space
MongoHQ is a distributed company, with 21 employees scattered across California, Alabama, Utah, Windsor Ontario, Quebec, and…
There's Always Money in the <del>Banana Stand</del> MongoDB Oplog
... make sure you don't burn it down. Anyone who's ever done much work with databases has experienced the "oh shit" moment wh…
Schema-Less Is (Usually) a Lie
People are fond of categorizing trendy database engines by what they're not ... "schema-less" is just one example. Overly bro…
Speaking "MongoDB Replica Set"
Replica sets are cool. They add data redundancy in a mostly transparent way, requiring only a little extra developer knowledg…