Morphium 6.3.1 — and the Transparent Message Bus

We just released Morphium 6.3.1 - officially a bugfix release, in reality the harvest of 6.3.0's first two production weeks: server-side topic filters in the change stream, detection of mixed messaging implementations, and an in-memory driver that now behaves like mongod down to event ordering. And the occasion for the bigger story: why a message bus made of documents is transparent - with a peeker that reads along without consuming, and Morpheus as the cockpit for the running bus. Try that with Kafka 😉

Morphium 6.3.0 — What's New?

Morphium 6.3.0 — What's New?

The largest release in the 6.x line so far. Its centre of gravity is not the client this time — it is PoppyDB and the in-memory driver underneath it, both of which went from "good enough to run your tests against" to something you can actually operate.

Using a wire proxy to do failover tests

Failover testing with `kill -9` is manual labor and never runs in CI — yet from a driver's perspective, failover bugs are pure wire phenomena. So we moved the faults onto the wire: one TCP proxy per replica set node that can freeze, reset, or cleanly close connections, plus `hello` rewriting so the driver never sees the real addresses. The harness promptly found real bugs — including a read that spent 26 seconds hammering a dead primary.

Morphium 6.2.6: The Timeout That Multiplied Itself by 100

Morphium 6.2.6 is out — and it repairs something that should never have been broken in the first place: replicaset failover. A chain of bugs (chief among them a timeout that silently multiplied itself by 100) meant the driver practically never recovered after the primary died: writes hung, messaging stayed dead. After the fixes: full write throughput ~25 seconds after a kill -9, no lost messages. Also on board: a fix for `findOneAndUpdate` deleting documents instead of updating them on read-cache hits, a self-deadlock in the SingleMongoConnectDriver, and `$setOnInsert`/upsert support in the InMemoryDriver.

Morphium 6.2.5: The One-Document Batch That Cost 20 Seconds

Morphium 6.2.5 is out. A quiet patch release with one loud story: a hardcoded change stream `batchSize=1` that turned into 20-second latency spikes over a high-latency link — plus Atlas TXT seedlist support, Quarkus native-image pre-registration, and a batch of InMemoryDriver and aggregation fixes.

Morphium 6.2.4 — When Messaging Dies Quietly

Morphium 6.2.4 is out. The reason behind it was a bug that took longer to find than to fix. In production, messaging suddenly stopped. The backlog grew. The log said nothing. Only the 10-second fallback poll kept the application half-alive. This is what we learned about producer/consumer architecture, silent `Error`s, and the hard 16 MB BSON limit, and the five layers of protection that came out of it.

Morphium v6 Performance — MongoDB vs PoppyDB vs InMemory

Morphium v6 rewrote the connection pool and messaging system from scratch. Here are the numbers: 38% more throughput, 2.5x faster messaging with PoppyDB, and a test suite that runs 879 tests across 5 backends in under an hour. --- id: 10647 ---

Morphium 6.2.2 — Bugfix Release with PoppyDB Hardening and Performance

Morphium 6.2.2 is here — a focused bugfix release that makes PoppyDB significantly more stable. Wire protocol corruption, thread leaks with 20,000 threads per node, and Raft election flapping are fixed. Plus: 4.7x faster startup via ClassGraph caching and PoppyDB is now 3x faster than MongoDB for individual operations.

Morphium 6.2.1 — A Bugfix Release That Packs a Punch

Morphium 6.2.1 is out — and while it's officially a bugfix release, there's considerably more inside than the version number suggests. ByteBuddy replaces spring-cglib, PoppyDB gets a stability overhaul, and the wire protocol is now much more robust against connection chaos.

JBlog3 — Von Spring Boot zu Quarkus

Morphium v6.x Update: 13 Releases at a Glance

13 releases, 417 commits: Morphium v6.x has evolved massively. MorphiumServer with replica set support and SSL, a finally stable connection pool, significantly faster InMemoryDriver, and self-healing ChangeStreams. Plus: Jackson removed as a dependency. An overview of everything important since v6.0.0.

New blog software

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Morphium version 5

Morphium, the java pojo objectmapper for mongodb, needed some rewrites and improvements. All details in this post.

Morphium V4.2.13

We have just released a new version, which again contains some improvements and fixes:

Morphium V4.2.12 released

The latest Version of morphium (V4.2.12) was released a couple of days ago. As usual, the changes contain Bugfixes and improvements.

• Tests were changed so that they run more smoothly in total, less side effects
• Tests were simplified
• B

Morphium V4.2.8 released

Morphium V4.2.8 was released including the following features:

• FEATURE:basic support for Aggregation with the InMemoryDriver using Expr
• FEATURE: Support for Expr in Qureries
• FIX: imrpvoved Support for sharding
• FIX: increased

Text Attack From Outer Space

Somehow you have a little too much time during the pandemic. And since I type a lot, I wanted to write a game with which you can improve a little ... whereby the focus was less on typing and more on trying out.

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Morphium V4.2.0 released

We just released Morphium V4.2.0 including a lot of fixes and features:

• Feature: new MongoDB Driver 4.1 is used and so we do support mongodb 4.4 now
• Feature: direct support of all aggregation stages
• Feature: Expr-Language
• Feature: ...

Morphium 4.1.4 released

We released Morphium 4.1.4. This includes, as usual a bunch of improvements and fixes. Here is the changelog since V4.1.0:

V4.1.4:

• Morphium is AutoClosable now - simplifies usage
• Checking for a field existence in sub documents was cau...

Morphium V4.1.2

Release Morphium V4.1.2

We just released morphium V4.1.2 via maven central. The lots of changes do contain:

• complete overhaul of messaging for increased stability, speed and less load on mongodb
• new Feature Encrypted Fields:

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