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That's a really cool technique oggy, I don't think I've heard of anything exactly like it. If you haven't told the TLA+ community about it yet, I'm sure they'd like to learn about …

I gave the presentation in the linked article, here's a written version of the presentation: https://emptysqua.re/blog/paxos-vs-raft/ I hope that the "Paxos vs Raft" debate can die…

"Avoid instant messaging at all costs" is definitely good advice. I usually forget to take three breaths before answering there, but I usually remember before I answer an email. Pl…

MongoDB, Inc. in New York City, Palo Alto, and worldwide. H1B welcome. We make the open-source document database. Virtually all the software we make is open source. We solve very h…

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No - it can only use one for a given query. But a compound index like the ones I describe in the post can index many fields.

None, almost certainly -- if you have enough RAM to fit your working data set, then MongoDB's writes are just changing memory. If it does need to read data from disk before changin…

One of the reasons DB-level locking is actually quite important is that the replication oplog is on the 'local' database and your data is on other databases -- so your application …

I wrote Motor, a non-blocking MongoDB driver for Python and Tornado. Here's how it works.