January 2012
11 posts
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Learn more about MongoDB Monitoring Service (MMS)
If you’ve already deployed an application using MongoDB, you might have heard about MongoDB Monitoring Service (MMS), a free and publicly available SaaS solution for monitoring your MongoDB deployment. On Thursday, February 9, 10gen’s Jared Rosoff will host a free webinar, Monitoring Your MongoDB Deployment. The webinar includes an MMS demo and will give MongoDB users the chance to ask...
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Free Webinar: Diagnostics and Performance Tuning
We’re pleased to invite you to attend another free webinar, “Diagnostics and Performance Tuning.” The third in our webinar series for the year, this session will focus on tips and tricks to help keep your MongoDB deployment running smoothly, even as it scales up.
In this presentation, Kyle Banker will teach you how to read the omens to ensure that your MongoDB deployment is in...
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Recap: MongoDB Tokyo 2012
On January 18, MongoDB Tokyo took place at the Shinagawa Seaside Rakuten Tower, as nearly 200 guests, double the attendance of the 2011 event, arrived to see presentations on MongoDB from both 10gen engineers and Japanese users.
NEW: Follow @mongodb_jp, the new Twitter handle for the Japanese MongoDB community.
Representing 10gen, President Max Schireson and Senior Engineer Alvin...
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Recap: NYC MongoDB User Group Meetup
Earlier this week, the NYC MongoDB User Group met at Buddy Media to learn more about how three different companies were using MongoDB.
Trello, an online organization and collaboration app, uses MongoDB alongside Node.js, Redis, and Backbone to run highly-responsive single-page applications, allowing multiple users to share information almost instantly on virtual project boards.
You can view...
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Reminder: Early Bird pricing for MongoDB Austin...
Just a short reminder from the 10gen team:
Early Bird ticket sales for MongoDB Austin will be closing on January 18. Today is your last chance to take advantage of a 50% discount on admission
At MongoDB Austin you’ll have the chance to hear from the team at 10gen working on MongoDB. Presentations from 10gen engineers will cover topics including application development, deployment, and the...
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Free Webinar: MongoDB and Amazon Web Services
Join us on Friday, January 20th for a free webinar on MongoDB and Amazon Web Services. Amazon Web Services provides reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud and is a great match for MongoDB. Sandeep Parikh will review the specific steps necessary to build and deploy MongoDB on AWS, addressing topics including:
- How MongoDB’s components map to AWS compute...
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MongoDB Case Study: Craigslist
Craigslist is a popular classifieds and job posting community which serves 570 cities in 50 countries. With 1.5 million new classified ads posted every day, Craigslist must archive billions of records in many different formats, and must be able to query and report on these archives at runtime. Historically, Craigslist stored its information in a MySQL cluster but the lack of flexibility and...
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MongoDB Case Study: foursquare
Foursquare is a location-based social network which has grown rapidly since its inception in 2009, requiring efficient ways to scale with limited engineering resources. As its user profile and activity stream data increased, foursquare made the strategic decision to migrate storage of venues and check-ins to MongoDB as a long-term scalable solution to the company’s continued expansion.
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The Big Picture for Big Data
A guest post from GigaOM
Are you sitting on un-mined gold? As the volume of enterprise data created has moved past terabytes to petabytes, companies need to determine the best way for them to store, manage and analyze all that information.
GigaOM’s Structure:Data, now a two-day conference, will assemble the world’s leading technologists, practitioners and business leaders to offer solutions...
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MongoDB at SCALE 10x
The MongoDB team is thrilled to be part of SCALE’s 10-year anniversary conference in Los Angeles this year. Southern California Linux Expo has grown to a three-day mega-conference, attracting thousands of open source enthusiasts from around the world.
Meghan Gill, who supports community development and outreach for MongoDB, will present The Care and Feeding of an Open Source Community,...
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Reminder: Get your Early Bird tickets to MongoDB...
Just a short reminder from the 10gen team: Wednesday, January 4th is your last chance to take advantage of early bird pricing for MongoDB Boulder on February 1.
At MongoDB Boulder you’ll have the chance to hear from the team at 10gen working on MongoDB. Presentations from 10gen engineers will cover topics including application development, deployment, and the newest features in MongoDB.
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December 2011
11 posts
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Free Webinar: Hybrid Applications using MongoDB...
It is common to use multiple systems as part of the infrastructure of an application, but it’s sometimes unclear to developers when to use MongoDB alongside a relational database and what the best practices are. To help developers and administrators better navigate this decision, 10gen’s Chief Evangelist, Steve Francia, will be leading a free webinar on hybrid applications with MongoDB and...
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MongoDB Case Study: Wordnik
At six times the size of the Oxford English Dictionary, Wordnik helps bring words to life by showing the conversations happening around them. Because Wordnik relies on data from real-time web posts, they needed a reliable and performance-tested database solution.
In 2009, Wordnik engineers realized that their existing MySQL data store couldn’t keep pace with the user-generated content which...
Reminder: Get your Early Bird tickets for Mongo...
Just a short reminder from the 10gen team: Thursday is your last chance to take advantage of early bird pricing for Mongo Los Angeles on Thursday, January 19th.
At Mongo Los Angeles you will have an opportunity to hear directly from the team at 10gen working on MongoDB. Presentations from 10gen engineers will cover topics including application development, deployment, and the newest features...
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Looking to Scale MongoDB on the Cloud? Try a PaaS
A guest post from Isaac Roth of Red Hat OpenShift
Two weeks ago a few members from the OpenShift team made it down to Santa Clara to hang out at MongoSV (Silicon Valley), take in a few sessions and have some great conversations with other MongoDB enthusiasts. If you didn’t make it out to the conference, you really missed out. There were some great sessions that covered MongoDB scaling...
Announcing the 2011 MongoDB Community Award...
This year, 10gen established the MongoDB Community Awards, which help us to recognize and reward peer-nominated community members who have helped to make the MongoDB project a success to date. Finalists competed in three categories—Community Champion, Innovative Application, and Core Contributor—to win the grand prize, a trip to SXSW Interactive in Austin, TX this coming March.
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Presentations and Partner Highlights from MongoSV
We closed 2011 with the largest MongoDB event of year, MongoSV. The conference brought together more than 1,100 MongoDB enthusiasts in Santa Clara, CA. With seven concurrent tracks, guests had to make tough choices between several compelling presentations in each time slot. Fortunately, all of the presentation videos will be available on 10gen.com over the coming weeks, and many have been posted...
MongoDB on Windows Azure: 10gen and Microsoft...
Over the past few months we’ve been collaborating closely with Microsoft to get MongoDB running on Windows Azure. If you have been following the MongoDB blog and GitHub repositories, you’ve already seen the early results of this effort. One of our goals with MongoDB is to support multiple platforms and clouds, and we are committed to ensuring that users who are building their applications on...
Announcing the MongoDB Masters
The MongoDB community has grown tremendously, and with that growth we’ve seen many people go above and beyond. Members of the MongoDB community have contributed code to the core server and drivers, written books and tutorials, built MongoDB-based open source apps, evangelized through speaking and blogging, provided support on the free user forums and IRC, created local MongoDB User Groups, and...
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10gen Announces Final Speaker and Sponsor Line-Up...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—10gen, which develops the leading open source non-relational database MongoDB, announced today the final presenters and sponsors for MongoSV. The annual one-day, seven-track conference features over 50 sessions from both MongoDB developers and production users. The conference is taking place on December 9 in Santa Clara, California and registration is still open for the...
Voting Open for the MongoDB Community Awards...
For three weeks, we invited members of the MongoDB community to nominate candidates for awards in three categories—Community Champion, Innovative Application, and MongoDB Contributor. Dozens of nominations were submitted from MongoDB users around the world.
After considerable deliberation, 10gen employees picked finalists in each of the three categories. However, it will once again be...
Recap: Mongo Seattle 2011
MongoSeattle got the Bell Harbor International Conference Center humming, with over 300 MongoDB enthusiasts in attendance for a three-track agenda. Amazon Web Services, MongoHQ, and MongoLab co-sponsored the event, ensuring that every attendee had the chance to walk out with new ideas and an armload of swag.
10gen sent Nosh Petigara, Spencer Brody, Chris Westin, Dan Pasette, Paul Pederson,...
November 2011
12 posts
MongoDB Community News and Articles
Four trends that shaped cloud computing in 2011
Introduction to Casbah: The Scala MongoDB Driver
Django, Celerybeat and Celery with MongoDB as the Broker
10gen’s MongoDB Monitoring Service: Smart Move
Recap: MongoDallas
Over 120 guests attended MongoDallas on November 17th to learn from 10gen engineers, customers, and partners.
10gen’s Deputy CTO Paul Pederson welcomed a standing-room-only crowd. Software engineers Spencer Brody and Tony Hannan, as well as solutions architect Kevin Hanson, presented on topics including schema design, indexing and querying, and using the MongoDB shell. Veteran road warrior...
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MongoDB in Action Giveaway Announcement
In anticipation of MongoSV, 10gen is offering ten free, digital pre-release copies of MongoDB in Action by Kyle Banker to readers excited to get their hands on the guide. Beginning on November 28, you can tweet at @10gen with the hashtag #mongosv to enter the contest. In your tweet, tell us why you want a free copy of the book.
As if MongoSV weren’t exciting enough already, we’re also happy to...
Articles and news from the MongoDB Community
Fiesta at the NY MongoDB User Group | Fiesta
MongoSV: Top 5 Reasons to be there | Nosh Petigara
Running MongoDB on OpenShift Flex | OpenShift
MongoDB and Pyramid | Pylons Project
Genghis: The single-file MongoDB admin app | Genghis
MongoDB at Devoxx 2011
We sent a few team members to Antwerp, Belgium to represent MongoDB at the Devoxx 2011 conference. Check out some of the event snapshots!
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MongoDB Community Awards Grand Prize Announcement
Last week, we kicked off our MongoDB Community Awards program with a call for peer nominations from the MongoDB user community. You can still nominate a community member for one of our three award categories—Innovative Application, Core Contributor, or Community Champion The 10gen team will pick three finalists in each category, and all the finalists (that’s nine in total!) will be invited to...
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I'm Presenting at MongoSV! | Loggly CEO Kord...
In May I had the opportunity to speak at the MongoDB conference in SF. I ran through how Loggly uses MongoDB to store statistical data on the data we recieve and how customers can use our API calls to render visualizations of their logging data. I also hacked a visualization example of events per device using the smashing protovis.js library, which you can view here.
I’m thoroughly excited...
Announcing MongoDB Motors at MongoSV 2011
We’re pleased to announce MongoDB Motors, an easy and fun way for MongoDB fans who live in downtown San Francisco to get to MongoSV. We’ve chartered luxury buses from downtown San Francisco to take you directly to the conference, providing free wireless and breakfast on the way. Bus riders will also get their registration badge and swag while in transit, to make checking in at MongoSV quick and...
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MongoDB - Why Does NoSQL Matter?
In recent years, the drumbeat of vendors proclaiming the ascendancy of NoSQL has become increasingly loud. One of the NoSQL vendors that is seeing business results from its NoSQL solution is 10gen, which is the lead commercial sponsor behind the open source MongoDB NoSQL database.
“We’re seeing the NoSQL space really taking off now and it’s being used in a significant way by a...
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Interesting blog posts from the MongoDB community
We rounded up some of the best MongoDB-related articles and blog posts this week. If you’re looking for a little extra weekend reading, check out the following:
Walkthrough: A MongoDB Map/Reduce Job | Fiesta!
Introduction to Cloud9 and MongoDB | Dreaming in Documents
MongoDB Rocks My World | Just a little Python
Where NoSQL, cloud computing and free texting converge | GigaOm
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MongoDB Community Awards to be Presented at...
At MongoSV, 10gen will present awards to peer-nominated community members for their contributions to the MongoDB project. Whether they’ve used MongoDB to build innovative applications, worked to expand and connect the MongoDB user community, or improved the MongoDB codebase, we consider our contributors to be part of the extended MongoDB family.
Through November 25th, we’re accepting award...
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Viber Media Selects MongoDB as Database in the...
Leading Non-relational Database Provides Core Backend Infrastructure on Amazon Web Services and Scales with Growing Community of More Than 30 Million Users
NEW YORK— November 1, 2011—10gen, the company behind MongoDB, today announced that Viber Media is using MongoDB as the core cloud infrastructure for its popular iPhone® and Android™ applications that offer free phone calls and text messaging...
October 2011
8 posts
Student hackers: Come work on MongoDB this summer!
Last summer we had four excellent interns, each of whom made significant contribution to the MongoDB project and 10gen internal tools. Looking ahead to the summer of 2012, we are excited to grow the program, increasing the number of overall interns, expanding the program to include our Redwood City office, and adding interns in marketing as well as engineering.
10gen interns have the...
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Node.js + MongoDB = Love
Check out the post on Joyeur.com to read more about pairing node.js with MongoDB
MongoSV Speakers and Talks
MongoSV, our annual user conference in Silicon Valley, is coming up on December 9, and we’ve been busy selecting talks for the event. Dozens of users submitted proposals, so assembling the schedule was not easy. Nevertheless, we have a great lineup, with submissions covering a wide variety of topics for all users of MongoDB, from novice to experienced.
For developers coming from a...
MongoDB 2.0.1 Released
MongoDB 2.0.1 has been released. This version fixes a few issues in 2.0.0 and is a recommend upgrade for all users.
Notable Changes:
Fixed CPU spiking issue under high contention
Profiling has correct time when profiling level set to 2
mongostat works with authentication
Improved handling of network events in distributed locking for sharding
Fix cases where replica resync was...
10gen Partners with Zend Technologies
Today we are pleased to announce that 10gen and Zend Technologies have integrated the MongoDB PHP driver with Zend Server, the world’s leading PHP Web application server, enabling PHP developers to take advantage of the agility and scalability of MongoDB.
Zend Technologies is now bundling the MongoDB PHP driver with Zend Server 5.5 to provide PHP developers with out-of-the-box access to...
MongoSV is coming on December 9
MongoSV is the annual user conference in Silicon Valley on December 9. It is the largest event of the year, and we expect it to be the best MongoDB conference yet.
Call for Proposals Have a MongoDB experience you want to share? Submit a talk before Wednesday, October 19. We already have dozens of great submissions, but by popular request we’ve extended the deadline another three...
October Developer Blog Contest: How do you Shard...
Effective sharding is one of the keys to a scalable MongoDB deployment. In this month’s blog contest, we want to hear about how you sharded your data!
Contest Rules
The rules are simple: share how you sharded your data in MongoDB by writing a description of your data model. Do it all in a detailed blog post and make sure you answer the following questions:
What did you chose for your shard key...
London CodeKen 2011
10gen consulting partner Equal Experts will be sponsoring the London CodeKen 2011 conference on the 14th and 15th November. The conference is a resurrection of the Stackoverflow DevDays London conference. The event is focused on professional coders and covers an eclectic mix of subjects including coding style, HTML5 and MongoDB. See the full schedule on the conference site:...
September 2011
8 posts
Announcing the MongoDB Monitoring Service (MMS)
Today we’re pleased to release the MongoDB Monitoring Service (MMS) to the public for free. MMS is a SaaS based tool that monitors your MongoDB cluster and makes it easy for you to see what’s going on in a production deployment.
One of the most frequently asked questions we get from users getting ready to deploy MongoDB is “What should I be monitoring in production?”...
We’re hiring open source enthusiasts
10gen is hiring Language Evangelists to work with the Ruby, PHP, Python, Perl, Java, and node.js communities. The evangelists are responsible for not only working on the language driver but for being the liaison to that language community.
We expect evangelists to work on open source software as part of their day-to-day activities. On one day, it might be building a cool sample application to be...
Take the MongoDB bus to the fall hackNY hackathon
10gen is excited to participate in the fall hackNY hackathon on October 1-2. hackNY connects talented students with New York City startups through hackathons and summer fellowships. We’ve been honored to participate in the hackNY program since its inception. We have had two great summer fellows who made substantial contributions to MongoDB, and we’ve helped many students use MongoDB in...
10gen CEO on NoSQL; foursquare discusses why they...
10gen CEO Dwight Merriman recently participated in a panel discussion where he gave his thoughts on the database landscape.
Harry Heymann, the engineering lead at foursquare, also spoke on the panel and gave a brief overview of why foursquare selected MongoDB for their fast-growing application.
Enjoy!
MongoDB Selected as the Core Content Management...
Today SAP announced that they are using MongoDB as a core component of SAP’s platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering. MongoDB was selected for the enterprise content management (ECM) section of the platform, as its flexibility and scalability will enable SAP to scale its content management service on its PaaS offering to meet customers’ requirements while managing data from different...
September Developer Blog Contest: Demo your...
Many new and innovative applications are using MongoDB for data storage. Does your application use MongoDB? If so, we’d like you to demo your application in our September developer blog contest.
Contest Rules
The rules are simple: create a video demoing us your awesome MongoDB-powered application. Describe why and how you made the choice to use MongoDB. Here are some questions you might consider...
MongoDB Release Party in NYC and MongoDB Track at...
On Thursday we will be organizing a special meeting of the NY MongoDB User Group. 10gen’s CTO, Eliot Horowitz, will present on What’s New in MongoDB 2.0. After the presentation, please join us at the Bleeker Street Bar for the 2.0 Release Party.
Over the weekend, 10gen will be sponsoring the first PyGotham conference in New York City. The event will feature an entire room dedicated...
MongoUK: Learn directly from the developers...
On 19 Sept, come join the third MongoDB conference in London. We are again partnering with Skills Matter, hosts of MongoDB training and the London MongoDB User Group. Given the interest in our last MongoUK event, we’ve expanded the conference to four tracks at a larger venue to accommodate more attendees, more advanced sessions, and more community presentations.
MongoUK will be a full day,...