Hello again reader! (I hope there’s at least one of you) It’s been quite a while since I wrote last and to be honest for a while it looked like I might never write again. It certainly wasn’t because I didn’t think about writing, in fact, I thought about writing almost every week. However, between adapting to ‘Agile‘ development at work and keeping up with my courses I didn’t even have time to blink. As of today, though, I’m putting this ship back on track so I will move on to the actual topic… This post is kind of a Continue reading MongoDB from D to B→

I have been doing some development using MongoDB lately, and I have been very happy with it. One of the things I had to do was set it up as a Windows service in the development servers where I work. The process was relatively simple, but seems like a great bit of information to document. I will be showing the settings I use, which include creating the mongo instances as part of a replica set and exposing a RESTful service for monitoring. The following can be done from either the standard Windows command line or PowerShell. I assume you are somewhat familiar with Continue reading MongoDB Replica Set Windows Service→