October 2012 saw the release of MongoDB 2.2.1 and MongoDB on Windows Azure 0.6, with notable blog posts covering topics such as Big Data for the Rest of us at Strata NYC, Managing Pull Requests for the MongoDB PHP Driver, and MongoDB Aggregation Framework and SQL Side-by-Side. Noteworthy releases also included MongoDB 2.3.0 unstable, MongoDB Java Driver 2.9.3, and C#/.NET Driver 1.6.1. Additionally, blog posts provided tutorials on building a Backbone/Brunch/Chaplin backend with Python, Flask and MongoDB, as well as optimizing Node.js and MongoDB performance. The month also featured articles on monitoring the MongoDB Shard Balancer Status and MongoDB Performance at Gilt.