Category Archives: MongoDB

The heart of juju

Posted on 2013/06/25 by niemeyer

The very first time the concepts behind the juju project were presented, by then still under the prototype name of Ubuntu Pipes, was about four years ago, in July of 2009. It was a short meeting with Mark Shuttleworth, Simon … Continue reading →

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Gopher-powered backups

Posted on 2013/05/28 by niemeyer

10gen, the company behind the MongoDB database, recently announced the availability of the MongoDB Backup Service. This is not a traditional backup service, though. Rather than simply sending scheduled snapshots of the data over to a remote system, the backup … Continue reading →

Posted in Go, Java, MongoDB, Project | 3 Comments

Multi-doc transactions for MongoDB

Posted on 2012/08/22 by niemeyer

I’m glad to announce experimental support for multi-document transactions in the mgo driver that integrates MongoDB with the Go language. The support is done via a driver extension, so it works with any MongoDB release supported by the driver (>= … Continue reading →

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The Easter mgo release

Posted on 2012/04/08 by niemeyer

It wasn’t just the bunny that was active over the holidays. The r2012.04.08 release of the mgo MongoDB driver for Go has just been tagged. This release is supposed to be entirely compatible with the last release, and there are … Continue reading →

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