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MongoDB GUI Tool: Rock Mongo

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Since we have been working lately with mongo I started looking for tools for administration and management of mongo additional to the CLI client. Looking around I've found this  nice GUI tool for managing MongoDB called RockMongo . If  you don't have php installed you may need to install it and add the mongo plugin for php: #Install PHP yum install php php-devel php-pear #Install the CPP compiler yum install gcc #Install the mongo extension on PHP pecl install mongo Then you need to enable php on your apache server. Edit the httpd.conf file Below the following lines: AddType application/x-compress .Z AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz Add: AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps Then enable the mongo extension. Edit  the php.ini file On section Dynamic Extensions  add the following line: extension=mongo.so Now enable the Apache server to user network connections to the database: setsebool h...

A thousand

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Thanks! por Anna Cervova

RabbitMQ first reactions

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As promised this is the first note about stuff we are working on our current project. Based on the nature of our system an asynchronous type of solution is needed. Having worked previously with some JMS solutions for example SonicMQ the words Messages and Queues was stuck on my mind right away when the project began.  OK, then if you remember my previous post I mentioned this is a "start-up" like project so we have to keep it cheap and OSS is the way to go. As consequence my first impression was hey! HornetQ its SUPER fast! 8.2Million messages per second. Lets try that!  So my colleague starts doing the first tests and after a while we begin realizing that its maybe too big of a rocket to shoot a fly and not so friendly to start with. Meanwhile I immerse myself in pages blogs and forums and the term Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) pokes on my eyes together with RabbitMQ  which looks like the cool new kid on the messaging industry. So...