Building a MongoDB Clone in Postgres: Part 2

Fri, June 15, 2012 - Jerry Sievert

In the first installment we dealt with creating collections and deep inspection of the JSON object once it was inserted. In this installment, we will be covering saving the data and building WHERE clauses from MongoDB queries in order to retrieve the data that we've written.


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Building a MongoDB Clone in Postgres: Part 1

Mon, June 4, 2012 - Jerry Sievert

I had a crazy thought. Don't all good ideas start with that phrase? Well, this one was suitably crazy: why not build my own version of MongoDB right on top of Postgres? It sounds a little far-fetched, but in all honesty it's pretty simple.


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Evented Arduino (with Node.js)

Tue, May 29, 2012 - Jerry Sievert

I love the Arduino; it's one of the most awesome technologies I've seen in quite a while: its heart is a gorgeous microcontroller with a plethora of inputs and outputs. I also love Node.js: its event driven model is very elegant and the fact that it's Javascript makes it pretty easy to develop in, even for the novice.


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