Resources

Hermes: Free the Data! Distributed Computing with MongoDB

Moving data throughout an organization is an art form. Whether mastering the art of ETL or building micro services, we are often left with either business logic embedded where it doesn't belong or monolithic apps that do too much. In this talk, we will show you how we built a persisted messaging bus to ‘Free the Data’ from the apps, making it available across the organization without having to write custom ETL code. This in turn makes it possible for business apps to be standalone, testable and more reliable. We will discuss the basic architecture and how it works, go through some code samples (server side and client side), and present some statistics and visualizations.

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ECMAScript 6 and the Node Driver

ECMAScript 6 (ES6) is getting closer and closer with more support available in both node 0.12.0 and io.js. ES6 promises to fundamentally change the way we develop applications on node.js by allowing for the use of generators for iterators and a standard promises library for orchestrating our asynchronous calls. In this talk we will explore the implications of ES6 for the node driver and applications written on top of the driver.

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Introduction to the New Asynchronous API in the .NET Driver

The latest version of the .NET driver introduces a new API that supports asynchronous programming. In this talk we will discuss why asynchronous programming is beneficial. When writing a server application, asynchronous programming results in server applications that can handle larger workloads with fewer threads. When writing a client application with a user interface, asynchronous programming is a convenient way to keep the client application from blocking and becoming unresponsive. We will discuss the new asynchronous driver API and look at lots of sample code.

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Dev Jumpstart: Schema Design Best Practices

New to MongoDB? We’ll discuss the tradeoff of various data modeling strategies in MongoDB. This talk will jumpstart your knowledge of how to work with documents, evolve your schema, and common schema design patterns. MongoDB’s basic unit of storage is a document. No prior knowledge of MongoDB is assumed.

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Ops Jumpstart: MongoDB Management Service

New to MongoDB? This talk will introduce you to the new automation functionality in MMS. We'll walk through demos of provisioning, expanding and contracting clusters, managing users, and more. MongoDB Management Service makes operations effortless, reducing complicated tasks to a single click. You can now provision machines, configure replica sets and sharded clusters, and upgrade your MongoDB deployment all through the MMS interface. No prior knowledge of MongoDB is assumed.

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Business Jumpstart: The Right (and Wrong) Use Cases for MongoDB

New to MongoDB? This talk will cover when to use MongoDB and how to evaluate if MongoDB is a fit for your project. You will see how MongoDB's flexible document model is solving business problems in ways that were not previously possible, and how MongoDB's built-in features allow running at scale. No prior knowledge of MongoDB is assumed.

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Ops Jumpstart: Admin 101

New to MongoDB? We'll provide an overview of installation, high availability through replication, scale out through sharding, and options for monitoring and backup. No prior knowledge of MongoDB is assumed. This session will jumpstart your knowledge of MongoDB operations, providing you with context for the rest of the day's content.

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Dev Jumpstart: Building Your First App

New to MongoDB? This talk will introduce the philosophy and features of MongoDB. We’ll discuss the benefits of the document-based data model that MongoDB offers by walking through how one can build a simple app. We’ll cover inserting, updating, and querying the database of books. This session will jumpstart your knowledge of MongoDB development, providing you with context for the rest of the day's content.

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Advanced Administration, Monitoring and Backup

Sailthru has been using MongoDB for 4 years, pushing the system to scale. Maintaining a high degree of client-side customizability while growing aggressively has posed unique challenges to our infrastructure. We have maintained high uptime and performance by using monitoring that covers expected use patterns as well as monitoring that catches edge cases for new and unexpected access to the database. In this session, we will talk about Sailthru's use of MongoDB Management Service (MMS), as well as areas in which we have implemented custom monitoring and alerting tools. I will also discuss our transition from a hybrid backup solution using on-premise hardware and AWS snapshots, to using backups with MMS, and how this has benefited Sailthru.

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WiredTiger MongoDB Integration

WiredTiger is MongoDB's first officially supported pluggable storage engine and exposes several new features and configuration options. This talk will highlight the major differences between the MMAPV1 and WiredTiger storage engines as well as unique characteristics of both.

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AWS to Bare Metal: Motivation, Pitfalls, and Results

Like many startups, Wish grew up on AWS. As our cluster grew and the price of SSDs fell, we started exploring bare metal. Fast-forward 2 years and we have hundreds of MongoDB instances on bare metal fully integrated with our AWS infrastructure. It wasn't all smooth sailing, but the performance & cost improvements were worth it! Hear the story of how we did it and gain a framework for thinking about how to make the leap from cloud-centric architecture to a hybrid model.

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Mobile 2: What's My Place in the Universe? Using Geo-Indexing to Solve Existential Dilemmas

Second in the mobile series. Our mobile application takes shape as we build out a schema to support geo-specific data and friend finding. Learn how to use MongoDB geo-indexing for real-time proximity matching and gather analytics with the aggregation framework.

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