Recently I wrote a post titled ‘Notes on MongoDB, GridFS, sharding and deploying in the cloud.’ I talked about various aspects of running MongoDB and how to scale it. One...

I’m a big fan of FreeBSD. However, as painful it is to admit, it isn’t always the best OS to run in the cloud. Compared to Linux, you will get...

About two years ago I started working on a project called Red iGone together with a friend and we started the company Devify. The objective of the first project was...

I’ve already posted about the fact that we’ve released a massive update to YippieMove. Today the legendary Silicon Valley-blog TechCrunch covered this in form of an interview with me.

A large part of last year spent working on a major update to YippieMove. The new YippieMove is a complete redesign, from the bottom-up. That means new logo, new user...

We‘ve been using MongoDB in production for about six months with YippieMove. It’s been an interesting experience and we’ve learned a lot.

I’m a coffee junkie. Like many of my fellow geeks, I consume way more than the average person. On a normal day, I drink somewhere between 5-10 cups perhaps. How...

In the previous post, I benchmarked three different virtual network drivers under FreeBSD. The clear winner was, perhaps not very surprisingly, the VirtIO network driver.

With the launch of FreeBSD 9, I was curious to learn how the VirtIO driver performed. I’ve seen a significant boost in disk performance, but how about the network driver?...

Some time ago, I wrote about how to use Virtio with FreeBSD 8.2. As I pointed out in the article, the performance was not nearly as good in FreeBSD 8.2...