ANZ Pied Piper

This is not the first time we discuss NoSQL databases in this blog. In previous posts we have seen how NoSQL databases differ from traditional SQL databases. NoSQL is a growing market forecasted to reach $5 billion this year and within that category MongoDB is the most popular and successful database. According to the latest rankings MongoDB is the 5th database most popular overall just trailing PostgreSQL and 3x more popular than other famous NoSQL databases like Redis, Cassandra and ElasticSearch. The MongoDB company itself had a successful IPO in October 2017 During our team project we decided to use MongoDB because it has a rich query language that allowed us to implement the functionality we were looking for. MongoDB stores BSON (Binary JSON) documents. This is what they look like: MongoDB is open source and its architecture allows it to scale horizontally in a load balanced fashion by adding more servers to reach very high performance. It also supports indexing for fa

In the Pied Piper program we run through a Vagrant tutorial as we found it a great tool to help set up other labs. We are not going to cover Vagrant in detail in this blog as there are plenty of good examples out there. If you are interested in the exercises we did you can visit the repository: https://github.com/cermegno/vagrant-lesson However, something I felt is not sufficiently document and would make a good candidate for a post is how to use Vagrant to deploy to AWS and particularly from Windows. I found a couple of posts that provided good detail but none of them prevented me from running into Windows specific issues. If you are running it from Linux, this article will still help you as I will point out the differences anyway. Install prerequisites Firstly, as the Vagrant documentation states, "providers" other than VirtualBox require a plug in. This is how you install the AWS provider: vagrant plugin install vagrant-aws Deploying to AWS EC2 generally mea