Acknowledgments

My thanks to all members of the MongoDB team, past and present. Without them we would not be here, and the way people think about the storage of data would be radically different. I would like to pay extra special thanks to my colleagues at the MongoDB team in Sydney, as without them I would not be here today.

Writing a book is always a team effort. Even when there is just a single author, there are many people working behind the scenes to pull everything together. With that in mind I want to thank everyone in the MongoDB community and everyone at Apress for all their hard work, patience, and support. Thanks go to Dave and Eelco for really driving the Third Edition home.

I’d also like to thank Dou Yi, a PhD student also at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (who is focusing on security and cryptographic based research), for helping to keep me sane and (patiently) explaining mathematical concepts that I really should have grasped a long time ago. She has saved me hours of banging my head against a very robust brick wall.

Special thanks go to Dr. Rocky Chang for agreeing to supervise my EngD studies and for introducing me to the world of Internet Measurement (which includes time synchronization). His continued support, patience and understanding are greatly appreciated.

To the 9gag community, without whom this book would have been finished months ago.

I would like to acknowledge the members of the mongodb-user and mongodb-dev mail lists for putting up with my endless questions.