This post is part 2 in the Super MongoDB MapReduce Max Out! series. Read Part 1 Now, from the last post, you might still be wondering what's the whole point behind this MapReduce stuff? What can you really do with it? Well hold on, I'm going to tell you. But first, some back story. History lesson So I work at CodeBaby and we sell CodeBaby Characters and CodeBaby Conversations to live on your website and bring some emotion to a static page. In or…

I've been playing with MongoDB lately, and I must say, it's the shit. In case you haven't heard of MongoDB, let's drop some buzz words: Document oriented Dynamic queries Index support Replication support Query profiling MapReduce Auto sharding There are some more things, so check out their website for the full meal deal. I'm going to talk about the MapReduce part of things. MapReduce The idea behind MapReduce has been around for a while; since t…