Antony Denyer

Mongo doesn’t appear to perform particularly well when querying large-ish collections with $or queries. For some reason, it can’t figure out which index to use and often ends up doing a COLLSCAN. Say you have the following document structure representing user transactions: [Read More]

When building systems you will quite often have to make the tradeoff between having a system that is loosly coupled or one that is simple. When we think of tight coupling we tend to think of it as a bad thing. But that is not always the case, you need... [Read More]

This is a demo post to show you how to write blog posts with markdown. I strongly encourage you to take 5 minutes to learn how to write in markdown - it’ll teach you how to transform regular text into bold/italics/tables/etc.I also encourage you to look at the code that... [Read More]

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Under what circumstances should we step off a path? When is it essential that we finish what we start? If I bought a bag of peanuts and had an allergic reaction, no one would fault me if I threw it out. If I ended a relationship with a woman who... [Read More]