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MongoDB .local Dallas Agenda | 10.27.2022

Registration and Breakfast
8 am–9 am

Grab your badge at the MongoDB registration desk before our keynote starts at 9am! Breakfast will be served from 8am for our attendees to enjoy some morning coffee and refreshments whilst networking with other attendees.

MongoDB Atlas Jumpstart
8:15 am–8:45 am

Working with data has always been the hardest part of developing applications. With MongoDB Atlas, we are looking at making it the easiest.

Among the many topics we’ll cover are:

• Creating a MongoDB Cloud account
• Creating a Free Tier M0 Cluster
• Loading in sample data
• Setting up database and network access
• Connecting to your cluster and accessing data
• Atlas Product Ecosystem overview.

By the end of the session, you will have access to a free and fully managed and distributed MongoDB deployment that you can use to start building tomorrow’s next best application.

Speaker: Leonardo Anez, Senior Solutions Architect
Company: MongoDB
Level: Beginner
Language: English

Working with Time Series Data in MongoDB
9 am–9:30 am

Learn how you can work with Time Series data in MongoDB.

We will cover Time Series in MDB with a brief overview of Time Series collections (released in MDB 5.0), including all of the exciting new features and support added for 5.x rapid releases, such as sharding, online archive integration, new query expressions and aggregation stages, performance improvements, Time Series collection column compression, and more.

Speaker: Jeff Schmitz,Advisory Solutions Architect
Company: MongoDB
Level: Intermediate
Language: English

Atlas Device Sync: How we used MongoDB to build a Scalable Conflict Resolution Service
9 am–9:30 am

Atlas Device Sync enables hundreds of thousands of concurrent or offline mobile users to operate on copies of the same data, ensuring that all mobile devices will converge to a consistent state. Only one year old, Sync already supports over 2MM end users. This talk will explore how Sync works and the MongoDB patterns that make it performant, scalable, and reliable.

Speaker: Timothy Marland, Senior Solutions Architect
Company: MongoDB
Level: Intermediate
Language: English

Keynote
9:40 am–10:40 am

MongoDB Senior Vice President of Product Management, Andrew Davidson, will explore why MongoDB is the best choice for modern applications, the future of application development, and how MongoDB is changing the way data-driven experiences are built.

Joining Andrew on the keynote stage will be Prince Paulraj, AVP Data Insights at AT&T. Prince will discuss how AT&T has used MongoAtlas as a transformative technology in the Chief Data Office. Whether it is combatting fraud attacks, or enriching our data science and machine learning repositories, AT&T's partnership with Mongo has created tremendous success. Prince will discuss how AT&T's portfolio of technologies has expanded but more importantly, how their transformation has created stability and scalability that has been critical to AT&T sales success.

Company: MongoDB
Language: English

Morning Coffee Break
10:40 am–10:55 am

Take a quick break before our general sessions begin! Grab your favorite coffee, visit one of our sponsors or speak with a MongoDB expert at our Ask the Expert booth! Be sure to arrive for your chosen session 5 minutes before the session start time.

How MongoDB Enables Your End-to-End Data Lifecycle
10:55 am–11:25 am

Many of us want to focus on building great products for users but then we get dragged into building glue between entirely separate products for search, mobile, real-time analytics, business intelligence, customer 360 initiatives, and the like. Wouldn’t it be nice to satisfy those requirements in one unified platform? Especially with newly announced features, MongoDB’s developer data platform allows you to do just that, so you can focus more time on building apps and services to delight customers. Matt will share how MongoDB helps at each step through the data lifecycle, and what else to consider in choosing the best technology. His perspective comes from 20 years of software experience across event processing, automated trading, BPM, BI, and especially 9 years as a solution architect with MongoDB working with more than 1000 customers.

Speaker: Matt Kalan, Executive Solutions Architect
Company: MongoDB
Level: Intermediate
Language: English

Search - Why you should care, and how to get started!
10:55 am–11:25 am

Come and learn more about how Atlas Search can be a game-changer for querying your MongoDB data on Atlas. Explore how adding a full-text search index right on top of your existing MongoDB Atlas collections can save you the headache of establishing ETL pipelines to external services to get the job done. We'll talk about how to get started in as little as 5 minutes, and explore some of the newest features being added to help to expand your searches.

Speaker: Joe Ransegnola, Senior Solutions Architect
Company: MongoDB
Level: Beginner
Language: English

From RDBMS to NoSQL at Enterprise Scale
11:35 am–12:05 pm

NoSQL isn't just a database. It's a new way of thinking about data. Traditional RDBMS has been baked into software development for decades. Moving development organizations from RDBMS to NoSQL means overcoming technology momentum and the natural bias to use solutions that are already well understood. Prior to joining MongoDB, Rick Houlihan led the NoSQL Blackbelt team for Amazon during their migration from RDBMS to NoSQL. This session is designed to introduce developers, technologists, and technical decision-makers to the NoSQL mindset and explore the design patterns and best practices developed by Rick and his team during that process. Join him for this insightful session that breaks down NoSQL data modeling for real-world workloads and dives deep into the core value of MongoDB for both SDEs and product stakeholders.

Speaker: Rick Houlihan, Director, Developer Relations
Company: MongoDB
Level: Intermediate
Language: English

Mainframe Modernization with MongoDB - A Practitioner's Playbook
11:35 am–12:05 pm

In a world of Digital Transformation, Mainframes pose both challenges and opportunities for organizations large and small, globally. In this session, Jeff Needham, MongoDB Industry Solutions Principal, will provide a practical playbook, as well as hands-on insights and recommendations for defining and executing a successful mainframe modernization program, with particular focus on the power and benefits of the MongoDB developer data platform. This session is appropriate for developers, architects, IT decisions-makers, and executives, alike.

Speaker: Jeff Needham, Principal Industry Solutions
Company: MongoDB
Level: Beginner
Language: English

Lunch
12:05 pm–1 pm

Lunch will be served for all attendees at midday on the first floor. Grab something to eat and visit the MongoDB product or Ask the Experts booth! Sponsors will also be located on the first floor, visit their booths and see which swag you can find.

The Principles of Data Modeling for MongoDB
1 pm–1:30 pm

Creating a schema for a relational database is a straightforward process. Designing a schema for a MongoDB application may seem a little more challenging. However, it doesn't have to be if you follow the main principles that MongoDB has identified for its users. This talk will go over these data modeling principles. We'll also reveal modeling tips to address the constant changes in the data technology world like new features in MongoDB, hardware evolution, data lakes, and the growing impact of analytics.

Speaker: Daniel Coupal, Staff Developer Advocate
Company: MongoDB
Level: Intermediate
Language: English

Queryable Encryption - Next-Gen Security for Sensitive Workloads
1 pm–1:30 pm

Many applications with high-sensitivity workloads require enhanced technical options to control and limit access to confidential and regulated data. In some cases, system requirements or compliance obligations dictate a separation of duties for staff operating the database and those who maintain the application layer. In cloud-hosted environments, certain data are sometimes deemed too sensitive to store on third-party infrastructure. This is a common pain for system architects in the healthcare, finance, and consumer tech sectors — the benefits of managed, easily expanded compute and storage have been considered unavailable because of data confidentiality and privacy concerns.

This session will take a deep dive into Queryable Encryption, in Preview with MongoDB 6.0, that address these scenarios while preserving rich query expressivity. Utilizing groundbreaking technologies developed by our Advanced Crypto Research group, we will review how confidential data can be easily queried without leaking information about the data being queried or the query itself.

Speaker:Kenn White, Security Principal
Company: MongoDB
Level: Intermediate
Language: English

Spring Forward, Fall Back: How to Use MongoDB Effectively in the Spring Framework
1:40 pm–2:10 pm

Many Java programmers use MongoDB through Spring. When done right, this can be a powerful combination. But sometimes, it makes programmers treat MongoDB too much like a relational database. We have identified several common pitfalls and solutions, and we're going to show you how to use MongoDB effectively in the Spring framework.

For example, when using MongoDB, the decision to map data to business objects (POJOs) needs to be reconsidered. Other features, such as batch processing, can be improved substantially when using the right MongoDB constructs. Join me in this talk to learn how to leverage the full power of a document database in Spring-based applications!

Speaker: John Ward, Senior Solutions Architect
Company: MongoDB
Level: Advanced
Language: English

Trucks with Flux Capacitors: How J.B. Hunt Transport Leverages MongoDB Timeseries to Track Trucks Through Time!
1:40 pm–2:10 pm

At J.B. Hunt Transport, we needed to modernize how we store, surface, and react to streaming telemetry data for well over 100,000 assets, including trucks, trailers, and containers. MongoDb’s timeseries offering enables flexibility and performance in storing historical information from many disparate sources and vendors into a unified data model for use in daily operations. Moreover, it positions us to grow use cases and capabilities as we continue our path to digital transformation. Our current architecture leverages the intake of streaming data from Kafka, persists each reading in Mongo, surfaces that data via APIs, and reacts to events with KSQL streams. We’ll present our use case, data models, and infrastructure, showing you how these technologies work in concert to provide the data and insights required to remain competitive in an ever-changing market.

Speaker: Donovan Bergin, Expert Software Engineer
Company: J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc.
Level: Beginner
Language: English

Atlas SQL: Bringing the Full Power of MongoDB to Analysts & Data Engineers
2:20 pm–2:50 pm

Are you a BI tool wizard who wants to explore your data in Tableau? Do you prefer SQL to MQL for quick, exploratory queries? Perhaps you already do some of these things today with MongoDB’s BI Connector. Newly available in preview, MongoDB Atlas SQL makes it easy to natively query and visualize MongoDB data using a SQL-compatible language that preserves the richness and flexibility of the document model. Join this talk to discover how we’re building the next generation of SQL support at MongoDB, and how you can use Atlas SQL to get the best of both worlds for your analytics applications.

Speaker: Sohail Shaikh, Senior Solutions Architect
Company: MongoDB
Level: Intermediate
Language: English

From Homegrown to Managed: Indeed’s Journey to MongoDB Atlas
2:20 pm–2:50 pm

Indeed had many MongoDB clusters running on-prem in Austin, TX. In February, 2021, there was a major Winter event that affected much of Texas with power outages. This threatened their MongoDB clusters as there was a potential to lose their servers due to these power outages. From this occurrence, a new project was born, "Winter is Coming." This new project moves all of their current clusters 754 into Atlas on AWS.

Previously Indeed leveraged a homegrown system to provision and manage MongoDB clusters within Indeed. However, it became difficult to keep up with the new mongo versions and features that are natively available with MongoDB Atlas. Moreover, the time and human effort it takes to keep up with the provisioning of resources in the homegrown system was not sustainable. As we considered alternative solutions to provisioning mongo clusters, we looked to MongoDB Atlas.

New projects are now added to MongoDB Atlas directly via Terraform. As Indeed has nearly 1K clusters we are designing a one-click automation through our old provisioning platform.

This talk will highlight this journey and call out some things we learned through designing the automation with terraform and kicking off these migrations to MongoDB Atlas.

Speaker: Manan Shah, Sr Data Engineer
Company: Indeed
Level: Intermediate
Language: English

Afternoon coffee break
2:50 pm–3:05 pm

Take a quick break before our final sessions begin! Grab a coffee, visit one of our sponsors or speak with a MongoDB expert at our Ask the Expert booth! Be sure to arrive for your chosen session 5 minutes before the session start time.

Diagnostics and Debugging in the Cloud
3:05 pm–3:35

When it comes to diagnosing performance issues, everyone wants to be a great detective, but as more of your applications are moving to the cloud, do you need new techniques and tools to debug what's going on? The speaker will (with the help of Sherlock Holmes) walk through techniques to identify things that cause poor performance, whether on-premise or in the cloud. Look at real-life examples and see if you can identify what went wrong, and more importantly, the signs of possible impending disaster

Speaker: Asya Kamsky, Principal Engineer
Company: MongoDB
Level: Intermediate
Language: English

Building a secure serverless application with MongoDB Atlas on AWS
3:05 pm–3:35 pm

In this hands on session we will learn how AWS and MongoDB Atlas work together seamlessly. MongoDB Atlas is a global cloud document database service for modern applications. We will walk you through how to build a serverless application, which can connect with the MongoDB Atlas database securely over private network using VPC Peering on AWS and shall query the data from the application.

Speaker: Suman Debnath, Principal Developer Advocate, Data Engineering and Analytics
Company: AWS
Level: Beginner
Language: English

Demystifying Sharding in MongoDB
3:45 pm–4:15 pm

The number one mistake made with sharding is not planning for it early on. Like most daunting things, the “ignorance is bliss” approach is appealing until it’s unboxing day...

You’re in luck. It turns out sharding your cluster is not so scary after all! This talk explores the concepts and architecture behind sharding while demonstrating its use cases and strengths. Furthermore, we outline how to pick a shard key and ultimately boost your application's performance through our sharding technology.

Demystify one of MongoDB’s most powerful features with one of our sharding engineers. The talk is crafted to be educational for all expertise levels.

Speaker: Dawoud Ibrahi, Advisory Solutions Architect
Company: MongoDB
Level: Intermediate
Language: English

Quicker Ideas and Integrations with the Atlas Data API
3:45 pm–4:15 pm

In this talk, you’ll get an up close look at the Atlas’ Data API and learn how you can use it to build and test your ideas as well as connect tools and services to Atlas more quickly, scalably, and securely. We’ll walk through the architecture of how the Data API is built and discuss how it can fit into your development process, including covering more advanced features like Authentication, Permissions, Schema and extending your development with custom HTTPS Endpoints.

Speaker: Drew DiPalma, Director, Product Management
Company: MongoDB
Level: Beginner
Language: English

MongoDB Relational Migrator: Bring Your Relational Workloads to MongoDB with Confidence
4:25 pm–4:55 pm

Moving that old, slow application off of a relational database and onto MongoDB sounds like a great idea but has historically been a very challenging undertaking. In this session, we'll introduce MongoDB Relational Migrator, a new product from MongoDB that takes the pain away from modernization projects by helping with schema modeling and mapping, as well as replicating and transforming data from Oracle, MySQL, and SQL server databases.

Speaker: Shiv Pullepu, Principal, Industry Solutions
Company: MongoDB
Level: Beginner
Language: English

Schema Design: Ask Me Anything
4:25 pm–4:55 pm

Wondering how to best model your data in MongoDB? Our panel of MongoDB experts will answer all of your schema design questions during this Ask Me Anything session.

Speaker: Asya Kamsky, Principal Engineer and Daniel Coupal, Staff Developer Advocate
Company: MongoDB
Level: Beginner
Language: English

Drinks Reception
4:55 pm–5:55 pm

It’s happy hour time! We would love for you to join us for some drinks and light bites to celebrate MongoDB.local Dallas 2022! This will be your last opportunity to network with other attendees and visit sponsor booths as well as MongoDB products and Ask the Expert booths.