November 2011
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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...