January 2012
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Upcoming MongoDB Events
Early this morning, the 10gen team watched as the last tickets to MongoDB Boulder were claimed. Tomorrow, the sellout crowd in Colorado will enjoy presentations from 10gen engineers Kyle Banker, Dan Crosta, Robert Stam, and Ryan Nitz, as well as from guest speakers James Ward, Brian Fromme, Krishnanad Khambadkone, Nathan Wells, David Blado, and Chris Merz. Attendees will also hear from...
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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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