Brian Yin

Brian Yin is a Member of Technical (MTS) at Datos IO, where he primarily works on backup and recovery for MongoDB. Before joining Datos IO, Brian was an undergraduate at UC Berkeley studying EECS.

Protecting Data in Public Cloud and Hybrid Cloud

January 16, 2017 | cloud services, data protection, hybrid cloud, public cloud, security

Backup, business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) have all been a critical part of IT for more than 30 years—ever since we began relying on technology to run our businesses. Traditional ...

Don’t Be Samsung: Here’s How You Can Protect Yourself

November 3, 2016 | big data, business continuity, data protection, devops, disaster recovery, distributed database, errors, point-in-time recover, relational database, samsung

Imagine a factory building 100,000 units a day, and you can see how a small error can have huge consequences. Now imagine that factory is a database. The world’s top smartphone maker ...

PyMongo Pointers: How to Make Robust and Highly Available Mongo Queries

November 2, 2016 | code, mongo, mongo queries, mongodb, Python

In today’s clusters made of commodity servers, failures are the norm. Having your code fail because one data node happened to be down when you were querying it is frustrating and no ...