December 2011
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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,...