The second edition of MongoDB: The Definitive Guide is now available from O’Reilly (affiliate link). It covers both developing with and administering MongoDB. The book is language-agnostic: almost all of the examples are in JavaScript. Upgrading from a previous edition? If you have read the first edition, the new edition covers a lot of new [...]
I’ve been at Google two weeks now and I’m loving it so far. My team is great and the work’s very interesting, but I can’t talk about what I’m doing, so: There’s a ton of orientation stuff new employees have to do, which hasn’t been much fun. There was a scavenger hunt (which is the [...]
Here’s what I wish I’d known when I started working at 10gen. Disclaimer: don’t take this as financial advice, consult someone who actually knows what they’re talking about before making any financial decisions, this is for entertainment purposes only, etc. Also, the numbers used below do not match any startup that I know of, they’re [...]
A recruiter had an email exchange at me the other day. It started with the standard recruiter email: Hi Kristina, How are you enjoying 10Gen? Any interest in going to something earlier stage? I’m working with a client in <field I’m not interested in>. Obviously the specificities of that are fascinating. Let me know if [...]
I’ve been interviewing people for programming jobs for five years and I’ve recently gotten a look at the interview process from the other side. Here are some suggestions for acing tech interviews. Read Cracking the Coding Interview (available for free from here, Google Play, and various other places). It is incredible, it basically covers every [...]
This is probably exclusively of interest to my coworkers, but MongoDB has a new fail points framework. Fail points make it easier to test things that are hard to fake, like page faults or network errors. Basically, you create a glorified boolean called a fail point, which you can turn on and off while mongod [...]
I was interviewing an potential summer intern yesterday (hey college students, apply to be an intern at 10gen!) and at the end she asked me, “I’ve never been interviewed by a female programmer before. Do you have any advice for me, being a female in a computer science?” I had no idea what to tell [...]
A bit of housekeeping: I’ve changed domain names, now this site is kchodorow.com, not snailinaturtleneck.com. Old links should still work, they’ll just be permanent redirects to the new domain. Please let me know if you come across any issues! Why the change? kchodorow.com sounds more professional and is shorter. Also, I’m after fame and glory [...]
I’ve been doing replica set “bootcamps” for new hires. It’s mainly focused on applying this to debug replica set issues and being able to talk fluently about what’s happening, but it occurred to me that you (blog readers) might be interested in it, too. There are 8 subjects I cover in my bootcamp: Elections Creating [...]
Andrew and I just returned from our honeymoon in the mountains, so I am now going to wax boring about how awesome it was. We really love rock climbing, so we went on a lot of rock scrambles. Rock scrambles involve “scrambling” around rocks, boulders, little cliffs, and crevices. We skittered down slippery sheets of [...]
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