This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Hopkins FBI is a 1998 adventure game from MP Entertainment, most famous for very large (at the ...

Upgrading components is an important part of maintaining a healthy application. The MongoDB Server is continually being developed to include new features and functionality, as well as to fix bugs, ...

The following is more of a diagnostic journey than anything else, and does not reflect a current issue with MongoDB Atlas. While I was still working as a Technical Services Engineer at MongoDB in...

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Cruise for a Corpse is designed as a murder investigation. The player assumed the role of Raoul...

I love to read, but I’ve found lately I have less time to actually sit down with a book. As a result I’ve been listening to a lot more audio books through Audible. Since I was able to get through m...

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Nightshade, fully titled Nightshade Part 1: The Claws of Sutekh onscreen, is an action-adventur...

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Wizard and the Princess is a graphic adventure game written for the Apple II and published in 1...

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Hugo’s House of Horrors is a parser-based adventure game designed by independent software devel...

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards is the first installment in Sierra’s Leisu...

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch is a 1993 video game based on Larry Niven’s Ringworld novel...

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Grim Fandango is a 1998 adventure game directed by Tim Schafer and developed and published by L...

Cross posted from the MongoDB Developer Center TableCheck is the world’s premiere booking and guest platform. Headquartered in Tokyo, they empower restaurants with tools to elevate their guest ex...

Efficiently Identifying Duplicates using MongoDB One question that comes up time and again on Stack Overflow or the MongoDB Developer Forums is “how can I find duplicate X and get a list of Y that...

When I was really getting into 16-bit JRPGs in the early to mid 90’s, Earthbound was actually one of the first games I ended up owning. Strangely enough what I remember most about it was the oversi...

Cross posted from the MongoDB Developer Center Though developers have always been capable of manually writing complex queries to interact with a database, this approach can be tedious and error-p...

I’ve spent my entire professional career as an engineering IC either churning out code, working on architectural challenges or helping to lead engineering teams (while still churning out code). Whe...

MongoDB currently maintains 10 programming language Drivers in-house, including a Ruby driver for which I’m presently the Product Manager. Additionally we also have a library of community maintaine...

Starting with MongoDB 4.4, the MongoDB Database Tools are now released separately from the MongoDB Server and use their own versioning, with an initial version of 100.0.0. Previously, these tools w...

In MONGOID-4889 the claim was made that assignment of a large number of embedded documents to an instance of a model will take increasingly longer as the size of the list of documents to embed grow...

Cross posted from the MongoDB Developer Center Before discovering Ruby and Ruby on Rails I was a .NET developer. At that time I’d make ad-hoc changes to my development database, export my table/f...

I signed up for Google AdSense in January of 2015 in hopes of subsidizing some of the time I spent writing with ad-based revenue. Without doing any research I quickly formed some baseless expectati...

Past My MongoDB Career Journey began almost 4 years ago, and I’ve enjoyed my time as a Technical Services Engineer immensely. During my tenure as part of the organization I had the opportunity to ...

This has been a long time coming. I took a run at Terranigma in 2015 and failed miserably, but I was such a huge fan of the other Quintet titles for the SNES I just couldn’t leave this unfinished. ...

One of the great things about MongoDB Drivers is that they are all built around a common set of specifications. Though these specifications exist to facilitate the development of new language drive...

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Since I just finished playing Police Quest 1 I figured I’ll stick with the “police work simulat...