Moving On From MongoDB
The last seven years, I have worked with, and for, MongoDB. I have seen it grow from a small start-up, then called 10gen, with fewer than a hundred people, into a NASDAQ listed company with over a thousand employees. But now, after all these years, it's time for me to move on.
I've learned a lot, and I have worked with very good people. In these seven years I rewrote the PHP driver (twice), wrote an HHVM driver (remember HHVM?), and implemented time zone support in the MongoDB server. I will be leaving the PHP driver for MongoDB in Jeremy's and other colleagues' capable hands.
I have come to greatly admire both the engineers at MongoDB, as well as the technology that we all created. I am a big fan of MongoDB, and will continue to speak and write about it.
What's next for me? That I'll explain in my next post.
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All the best with your future endeavours!
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My whisky of the month for December 2025, is a 15yo Aultmore bottled by Cadenhead's.
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Fancy a friendly #OpenStreetMap chat in the pub, with some Christmas celebrations?
The London OSM gang is meeting on December 16th near Paddington.
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This talk on what's New in PHP 8.5 is in English! Je ne parles pas Français!
Merged pull request #1049
Reorder xdfree(name) and removing trailing whitespace
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It must be the first of the month, because the GitHub sponsor cancellations are coming in again.
Instead of spending money on things that you don't need on this #cybermonday, support the maintainers of the open source projects who help you create the software that powers your site.
For @Xdebug that could be through:
- GitHub sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/derickr
- Directly with an invoice: https://xdebug.org/support
- Signing up and using Xdebug Cloud: https://xdebug.cloud/
It was a great morning for a walk along the Thames' North Bank. Curiously, I had never really walked this stretch of it before.
#photography #london #thames #ThamesPath #hiking
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I hiked 8.3km in 1h31m39s
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I walked 1.6km in 15m21s
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