Experience with additional database platforms such as Postgres, Redis and Mongo in a live production environment
Able to work in a * nix/ Linux environment
Use source control exclusively, Git preferably
Use ftp to deploy applications
Experience programming iOS, Android or BlackBerry applications
Write tests with UnitTest, RSpec or some other test-driven framework
Additional Desirable Business Competencies
Comfortable working with business model canvases such as …
…, Solr, Memcache, and Redis. Cassandra and Mongo were dropped.
These two lessons are interrelated. Tools following the principles in (2) can scale by adding more boxes. And as load increases mature products should have fewer problems. When you do hit problems you'll at least have a community to help fix them. It's when your tools are too tricky and too finicky that you hit walls so high you can't climb over.
It's in what I think is the best part of the entire talk, …
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…in a live production environment: mySQL, Postgres, Redis, Mongo,
Score +2 if you have created an API for a production environment,
Score +2 if you have used Chef or Puppet or other deployment automation tools,
Score - 5 if you generally use ftp to deploy applications,
Score +2 if you have excellent HTML and css skills, and add a bonus +1 if you can show us something significant that you coded in HTML5,
Score +1 if you ride a bike,
Score +1 if you play an instrument, …
…atom in a Redis queue, multiple rows in Postgres, and an entire tree in Mongo. Synchronizing these databases, and synching the corresponding code in version control, has countless associated challenges.
The easiest answer, of course, is not to do it. The easiest way to deal with paradox is to narrow your worldview sufficiently that it disappears. It's a very old solution, but it's not a very bold solution.
One of the oldest and greatest problems in philosophy is relevant to web …
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One thing's for sure, I'll never run out of work in this job.
HTML5 Boilerplate - Version 4.0 release of this basic scaffolding for modern web sites.
Eager Loading for Greater Good - When and how to eager load modules in a Rails application.
Ember Script - "A coffee-derived inspired language which takes advantage of the Ember.js runtime".
MongoDB Manipulation, Mastery and Monkey Business - How to upgrade a running Mongo cluster with zero downtime.
A pool full of swimming Cub Scouts is loud.
Toward a Bundler plugin system - People are treating Bundler as a platform these days.
Mouth - Monitoring and graphing package that runs on ruby plus Mongo.
mongodb-macosx-prefpane - OS X preference pane for Mongo instances installed via homebrew.
Introducing Graphene - Ruby gem for transforming object collections into graphs.
Redis Sentinel - Distributed monitoring and automatic failover for redis.
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- Scout ~ The Blog: Monitoring MongoDB
…83% more popular than second place Redis. It was somewhat interesting to see Mongo place lower than both Redis and Memcache, but many Mongo developers never bother with drivers and PHP's affinity for caching and in-memory data stores has historically been strong. Note PostgreSQL's finish; this will stand in contrast with its performance in other communities.
With regard to operating system usage, PHP was the only dataset with no Windows systems visible. The dominance …
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- Lessons Learned: Doing > Talking
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Engine Yard Cloud Out Loud S01E06: New Relic RPM Bronze is FREE!!
- Effectif Development: 3 Unix commands for finding performance problems
…adrianco : My takeaway from the MongoDB talk at #gluecon is that Mongo is implementing eventual scalability in the next version
The death of the general purpose computer is causing strange events like Facebook making their own smart phone . Adam Smith said we all benefit when our neighbors get richer, it creates a bigger pie. We are heading back to the mercantalist notion of a zero sum game. Google is also racing to the bottom Google Product Search To Become …
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- New Relic: Node.js, ASP.NET, & Sinatra, Rails, Java: The List Goes On, Removing the OS Barrier with PaaS Part 3.14159265
- blog.webandy.com | Andy Atkinson: WindyCityRails 2009 conference
- RailsTips by John Nunemaker: Give Yourself Constraints
- The "Tech. Arch.": Camping light (nosql) with MongoDB
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Yuletide Logs and MongoDB Capped Collections
MongoDB continues to be the most popular of the NoSQL data stores, and it continues to generate disgruntled blog posts from former users. I've been using MongoDB since the summer of 2009, and my experiences have been consistently positive. In fact, MongoDB is my current default data store when building a new web app, and has been since shortly after I started using it. I understand all the criticisms being levied at Mongo, but they're not going to change my position.
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- How Software is Built: Interview with Eliot Horowitz - CTO of 10gen / MongoDB
- Effectif Development: Replication and Replica Sets - Dwight Merriman
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: MongoDB Best Practices
- Kalzumeus Software: Security Lessons Learned From The Diaspora Launch
- paperplanes: Notes on MongoDB
* Getting Started with Mongo DB Rails on Cloud Foundry
* Cloud Foundry + Grails + Mongo DB Quick Start
* Getting Started with MongoDB with Node.js
SQL Server
Thanks to Iron Foundry, this old stanchion has finally gained support within the Cloud Foundry ecosystem. Any .NET developer will have an easy development of PaaS enabled defaul with SQL Server. Rest assured, the trusty database is ready and available. …
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