var mongodb = require('mongodb');

  /**
   * Connect to the db
   */

mongodb.MongoClient.connect("mongodb://localhost:27017/test?ssl=true", function(err, db) {
  console.log('Error1: ' + err);
  db.collection('test').insert({ a: 1}, function(err) {
    console.log('Inserted with error: ' + err);
  });
});

[ec2-user@ip-10-153-184-74 troubleshoot-mongoose]$ ../node-0.11.13/bin/node index.js 
js-bson: Failed to load c++ bson extension, using pure JS version
Error1: null
^C

[ec2-user@ip-10-153-184-74 troubleshoot-mongoose]$ ../node-0.10.30/bin/node index.js 
js-bson: Failed to load c++ bson extension, using pure JS version
Error1: null
Inserted with error: null