A collection of my writings, articles, and resources.
Operations
- Safe Software Deployment: A Series — A comprehensive guide to deploying software safely at scale
- The 180 Rule — Deploy, monitor, and rollback within 180 seconds
- Z Deployments — Test your rollbacks before you need them
- The Goldilocks Gauge — Finding the right deployment size
- Through the Looking Glass — Why staging never equals production
- AWS Had a Bad Day — Lessons from the AWS outage of December 7th, 2021
Leadership
- Why Did I Come to MongoDB? — The journey from relational databases to document databases
Culture
- Cultural Hints — Principles I’ve refined throughout my career
- Mark’s User Manual V0.5 — How to work with me
Articles & Coverage
- Oracle Media Server (1994) — Providing consumer-based interactive access to multimedia data (ACM SIGMOD)
- AWS DocumentDB Not MongoDB-Compatible — The Register coverage of MongoDB’s compatibility claims
Productivity
- Productivity Hacks — Tools and techniques I use every day