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 already.
The 50+ sessions at MongoSV covered MongoDB development and operations fundamentals, new features, community case studies, and partner technologies. Some of the conference highlights included:
- MongoDB’s New Aggregation Framework - Chris Westin, 10gen
- Deploying MongoDB for High Availability - Eliot Horowitz, 10gen
- Experiences Deploying MongoDB on AWS - Cooper Bethea, foursquare
- The Importance of Accessibility and Open Source in Developer Adoption - Jason Hoffman, Joyent
- A Year with MongoDB: Running Operations to Keep the Game Magic Alive - Curt Stevens, Disney
- MongoDB at CustomInk: Adoption, Operations, and Community - Nathen Harvey, CustomInk
The event wouldn’t have been as successful without the support of so many partners and sponsors, including Microsoft, VMWare Cloud Foundry, Red Hat OpenShift, Rackspace, Amazon Web Services, MongoLab, Nebula, Joyent, Pentaho, Fusion-io, Ubuntu, O’Reilly, Manning Publications, Loggly, Github, Twilio, MongoHQ, Server Density, Right Scale, dotCloud, PalominoDB, DATAVERSITY, and Startup Monthly.
At MongoSV, several of our partners made exciting announcements about integration of MongoDB with their products. For example, Red Hat OpenShift is now offering MongoDB version 2.0 on their platform, as well as up to five, free 512 MB instances on which to deploy your applications and MongoDB. Joyent launched its SmartMachine Appliance for MongoDB. Jaspersoft released a new version of the native connector to MongoDB, enabling easier reporting, analytics, and visualization of Big Data. And as you may have read on the 10gen blog yesterday, it is now possible to run MongoDB on Microsoft Windows Azure
MongoSV was also the official launch of Kyle Banker’s new book, MongoDB in Action. Guests were offered a generous discount on hot-off-the-presses copies from Manning, and could get their book signed by the author on site.
Mike Dirolf of fiesta.cc kept an impressive live blog of the event running, while intrepid Twitterers used the hashtag #mongosv over 1,200 time during the course of the event. We also took hundreds of photos, and you can check out the rapidly-growing photo album from the event on Flickr.
Thanks again to all of the community members, presenters, and partners who helped make MongoSV such a success. We look forward to seeing you at our 2012 events.
