We rolled out a new app server to production yesterday, so we refreshed the stable SDK builds with those versions. We also added a stable binary build for Windows. Also, there is a fresh set of snapshot builds...
This weekend we posted our binary SDK for Microsoft Windows. You can find in on the SDK page on the wiki, or for the impatient, just download it directly. Note that this is a "snapshot" - we'll do it from...
The 10gen runtime environment uses application layer sandboxing to isolate each client environment running on a physical machine. This method is quite different than using operating system virtual machines. We...
I ran the test below on my macbook pro — both database and app server running on the same machine. Result is about 19k inserts / second. The collection being tested has one index on the _id field. ...
The 10gen platform was recently written about in the German "Jaxenter" online magazine: http://it-republik.de/jaxenter/artikel/10gen-Komplette-Plattform-zum-Ablauf-von-Webanwendungen-1871.html It's a nice writeup...
In my previous post I discussed why we chose JavaScript as our first language for 10gen. While I love building applications with server side JavaScript, JavaScript does have its faults. Here are some...
We've seen quite a bit of innovation on distributed file systems over the past few years: Google GFS, ZFS, HDFS -- and as a file store, Amazon S3. What's the next step? We would argue it is time that you...
There is now a *.10gen.com SSL certificate on the 10gen cloud. For example, try this. There are two ways to address a site on the 10gen cloud: either via http://mysite.10gen.com/, or if you own your own domain...
Greetings from OSCON. (More cloud here than you might have thought... report later, after recovery.) Some people have been asking for the 32-bit build of the 10gen SDK for Linux - it's avail now. You...
One of the interesting and different things about 10gen is that its first supported language is JavaScript. Most of our libraries are in JavaScript, and a lot of the system itself is in JavaScript. So, why...
Today appears to be "announcement day" at 10gen, as we have another - the 10gen platform is open source. The source code for the 10gen platform available under open source licenses can be found on our ...
Today is a big day for us at 10gen - in addition to the series A financing that we announced earlier this morning, we're also announcing that our SDK is available for download. Our new 10gen Platform Software Development...
Today we announced that 10gen has received $1.5 million in Series A financing from Union Square Ventures. We are very excited to work with Albert Wenger and the rest of the Union Square team. Albert is a thought...
In the early days of DoubleClick, when designing the DART technology, we had to decide on an efficient way to store massive amounts of information, such as number of exposures to a particular advertisement ID. At...
Zeus ZXTM is a very good layer 7 software load balancer. It has great performance and great features, including ability to cache content (with an optional module). It has only one downside: it is expensive. If...
We are beginning to see a segmentation within the cloud computing space. I would consider Amazon's web services to be the "traditional" form -- point web services which solve specific problems. However, a new...
Welcome to the 10gen blog. Here you'll find our views and observations on cloud computing, commentary on the 10gen system itself, and interesting things about our company. Stay tuned - our alpha begins in July...