Join us on Thursday, April 5 for the next free webinar in our series, Common MongoDB Use Cases. Hosted by Jared Rosoff, this webinar will walk listeners through real world use cases of MongoDB that take advantage of the database’s unique features—document-oriented data storage, range based partitioning, and strong consistency, among others.
The webinar will cover specific customers using MongoDB, how they implemented their solutions, and how you can build similar solutions for your own organization. Register today for one of three sessions on Thursday.
Daniel Roberts, Solutions Architect at 10gen, will offer an introductory overview of MongoDB at the first Thames Valley (Reading) MongoDB User Group Meetup on March 28th. Experienced MongoDB users, developers new to NoSQL, and students are all welcome to attend the talk, which will be hosted at the Amen Corner offices of HP.
The main topic areas to be covered during the meetup include:
Getting started - CRUD and the JavaScript shell
Creating schemas for a document-oriented DB
Scaling with MongoDB (replica sets, master/slave, auto-sharding)
Interesting features for developers (geospatial indexing, capped collections, file storage, upserts)
Attendees will learn how trading off a few traditional features of databases (notably joins and transactions) helps MongoDB to achieve much better performance. Can’t make it to Wednesday’s meetup? Join the group to hear about subsequent meetups, guest speakers, and more.
MongoDB Berlin drew nearly 300 enthusiasts and engineers to the Maritim proArte hotel for a full-day conference featuring presentations from 10gen engineers as well as local MongoDB users. Event sponsors included Cloud Foundry, Geekli.st, and Codecentric.
Guest speakers included Marko Gräßlin, Lennart Koopmann, Oliver Gierke, Johannes Hoppe, Grant Shipley, and James Roper. 10gen speakers at the event were Ross Lawley, Alvin Richards, Max Schireson, Christian Kvalheim, and Richard Kreuter.
Thanks to everyone who came to MongoDB Berlin, to our enthusiastic guest speakers, to our sponsors, and to the enthusiastic members of the German MongoDB community. If you missed the event or want to review a presentation, we’ll be making video footage available on our website..
Last week, the Denver MongoDB User Group held their first meetup, hosting 10gen’s Kevin Hanson as the night’s guest speaker. Special thanks go to organizers Clay, Josh, and Gerred, the folks at Arrae Creative, who provided a location as well as some home-baked snacks, and sponsors Qwizzle, GoFast, and Highland Tap & Burger. If you’re in the Denver area, please sign up to join the group for their April meetup.
Just a short reminder from the 10gen team:
Early Bird ticket sales for MongoDB Atlanta will be closing on March 23, 2012. Friday will be your last chance to take advantage of a $50 discount on admission (discounted student tickets are also available).
At MongoDB Atlanta you’ll hear from the members of the team at 10gen who work on MongoDB every day. Presentations from 10gen engineers will cover topics including application development, deployment, and the newest features in MongoDB.
MongoDB Atlanta will also highlight several use cases from the local MongoDB user community. Some key sessions to look forward to:
- Journaling and the Storage Engine (Mathias Stearn, 10gen)
- Rapid and Scalable Development with MongoDB, PyMongo, and Ming (Rick Copeland, Arborian Consulting)
- Schema Design Principles and Practice (Jesse Jiryu Davis, 10gen)
- Mission Critical MongoDB (Kevin Calcagno, Lulu)
- Building your first MongoDB Application (Sandeep Parikh, 10gen)
We have an exciting presentation agenda for the event, and we hope that you’ll be able to join us. Remember to purchase your tickets on or before March 23rd to lock in your Early Bird discount.
MongoDB Sydney packed the University of Technology Sydney’s computer center, drawing 170 MongoDB enthusiasts from around New South Wales and surrounding states for a full day 2-track agenda.
10gen sent Mathias Stearn, Sridhar Nanjundeswaran, and Adam Kroll to Australia, while more local presentations from Michael Frost, Mathieu Kempe, Nick Holms-a-Court, Andrew Jessup, and Steven Cooper were also featured.
Thanks to everyone who came to MongoDB Sydney, to our enthusiastic guest speakers, and to the staff of UTS for helping us to put on another exciting event. If you missed the event or want to review a presentation, we’ll be making video footage available on our website.
Join us on Thursday March 22nd for a webinar on “Asynchronous MongoDB with Python and Tornado” presented by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis. In this presentation, Jesse will review the state of the art for Tornado and MongoDB, and demonstrate building a real-time web app.
A Python evangelist, Jesse maintains the Python driver and ensuring MongoDB and Python web frameworks play well together. He has a ton of insights to share so we hope you’re excited for this event!
To register, visit our the event site.
Last week, 10gen Engineers visited two major industry conventions—PyCon 2012, in Santa Clara, CA, and QCon, in London, UK.
Rick Copeland and Bernie Hackett presented “MongoDB and Python,” an intermediate-level tutorial for developers using Python, MongoDB, and the object-documment mapper Ming. 10gen engineers Jesse Jiryu Davis and Dan Crosta also attended
Meanwhile, in London, 10gen CTO Dwight Merriman and EMEA Technical Director Alvin Richards attended QCon, where Dwight joined in the panel discussion on “Future of Data Architecture: NoSQL, Big Data, Linked Data and the Cloud.” Alvin presented “You’ve built your application. So what next?” as part of the Big Data/NoSQL track, covering best practices for deploying and scaling an application built on MongoDB.
Love MongoDB but don’t know how to begin? Register for our upcoming webinar “Building Your First MongoDB Application” on Thursday March 15th for a tutorial on building a simple location-based check-in application using MongoDB. Presenter Kevin Hanson, Solutions Architect at 10gen, will cover the following basic MongoDB topics:
- Document model
- Query language
- Map-reduce framework
- Deployment architecture
As a Solutions Architect, Kevin Hanson works to help make 10gen customers successful with MongoDB. Prior to 10gen, Kevin worked at MarkLogic as a Senior Consultant for four years.
To learn more about this webinar and register, visit the event site.
In order to help students from around the Northeast compete in the upcoming hackNY Student Hackathon, 10gen is sponsoring buses to and from New York City on March 24-25. One bus will stop in Cambridge, Providence, and New Haven, while another will pick up students in Philadelphia, Princeton, and New Brunswick. Students who ride round-trip on the bus will be refunded the $20.00 registration fee, and all buses have wifi on board.
The hackNY 23-hour Student Hackathon will be held at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU, and students will be invited to use technologies created by New York-based startups to create new applications. For more information, visit hackny.org.
Students are also invited to check out the 10gen Careers Page for up-to-date information on summer internships and entry-level positions.
Photos from the fall 2011 Hackathon
