About the author
Ken W Alger
@kenwalger
Developer educator and advocate who still ships code. 15 years teaching developers at MongoDB, Heroku, Cisco, and Treehouse. Now writing about AI-assisted development, agent memory, and provenance.
Oregon
Oct 25 '17
Book Review: The Complete Software Developer’s Career Guide
I started my blog in part to help advance my personal career. While speaking at Boise Code Camp 2017...
Jul 21 '17
MongoDB Storage Engine Journaling
A discussion of journaling in different storage engines with MongoDB. MMAPv1, Wired Tiger, and memory storage are discussed as it relates to journaling.
Nov 12 '17
Monetary Data Type Storage in MongoDB
One piece of information that is frequently stored in databases is monetary dat...
Jun 29 '17
A review of the LoPy microcontroller
A look at the LoPy IoT Device from PyCom. Specifications and features are examined along with some discussion of potential use cases.
Jun 28 '17
Overview of MongoDB's BaaS offering: MongoDB Stitch
An overview of MongoDB's backend as a service offering, MongoDB Stitch. A look at the benefits of using MongoDB Stitch and some of its features.
Jun 24 '17
IoT Security with SSL/TLS in MicroPython
A look at security for IoT devices and what protocols can be used to secure the data communication.
Jun 23 '17
Importing data with mongoimport
Using mongoimport in MongoDB to import CSV, TSV, or JSON data into your MongoDB database
Jun 14 '17
MicroPython Temperature Sensor
Using MicroPython with a NodeMCU ESP8266 for temperature readings
Jun 13 '17
MongoDB Horizontal Scaling through Sharding
Sharding in MongoDB
Jun 12 '17
Choosing a good Shard Key in MongoDB
Choosing a good Shard Key in MongoDB
May 24 '17
Overview of the MQTT Protocol
There are several different ways one can utilize to connect an Internet of Things (IoT) device to a...
May 22 '17
MongoDB explain() explained
A brief overview of MongoDB's explain() method