by Tim Gray | Jun 8, 2018 | CloudBI |
AWS EFS (Elastic File Storage) is AWS managed network store for EC2 servers (and on-prem too if you are that way inclined). Its a really handy tool for sharing configuration files, data or anything you want between clusters of EC2’s or just keep it around in...
by Tim Gray | May 16, 2018 | CloudBI, General, MongoDB |
MongoDB 3.6 has some awesome features, change streams being my personal favourite (see all the changes here), but what if we have an old MongoDB cluster running on 3.4 and want to use these cool features? Here is how! Note: This guide assumes you installed MongoDB...
by Tim Gray | Apr 26, 2018 | CloudBI, MongoDB |
MongoDB is a very popular database, in fact, we love blogging about it. But what is MongoDB? And what are the best things to do with it, and what shouldn’t I do with it? I get asked this a lot so here are the answers to these questions. Don’t worry if...
by Tim Gray | Apr 11, 2018 | CloudBI |
Recently The Cloud at OptimalBI has taken a more bluish tinge. We have always liked a little Microsoft here at OptimalBI Ltd with our C#s and our SQL Servers, and as such our ventures over to the land of the long blue cloud were inevitable. Azure is one of the fastest...
by Tim Gray | Mar 15, 2018 | General, Open Source |
As a developer you are always taught to comment code, but often people leave out what commenting code actually means and the difference between a helpful comment and a wasteful one. Commenting for the public When you write code libraries or are writing code that code...
