Fun with Dependencies | Matt Insler

Build a Car. Don’t Make a Faster Horse.

Matt Insler — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:44:45 +0000

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” ― Henry Ford Henry Ford’s famous line is often used as a guideline for innovation, but I think that the majority of tech start-ups misinterpret the quote. By and large I’m not talking about “cool” products like games or social networks [...]

MongoNYC 2011: My Talk on Tracking and Analytics at Signpost

Matt Insler — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:30:49 +0000

Last week I gave a talk about the way we do analytics and tracking at signpost.com. The content was a follow-on to my post about how we moved the tracking system from MySQL to MongoDB. I hope the talk was informative and invite any questions that people may have. Here are the slides: How Signpost [...]

Signpost Tracking & Analytics: MySQL -> MongoDB

Matt Insler — Tue, 31 May 2011 20:11:41 +0000

Here at Signpost, we believe in track everything. We keep every request, every event, every log, every exception. We use this data for user tracking, analytics and business intelligence, and code health / bug triage. Original System We started out with MySQL. Requests were logged into a request table, except we handled the 1-Many relationship [...]

MongoDB Blog Contest – I Won!

Matt Insler — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:04:08 +0000

I entered my post on Why (and How) I Replaced Amazon SQS with MongoDB into the MongoDB Blog Contest and won!

Why (and How) I Replaced Amazon SQS with MongoDB

Matt Insler — Tue, 25 May 2010 19:09:45 +0000

What is Amazon SQS? Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service) is a reliable message queuing service hosted in the Amazon cloud. This service is ideal for sending messages between servers that need to acknowledge that processing has been completed. When a message is popped from the queue, it is not deleted, but marked with the client [...]