It is important for developers to understand the performance of a software project as they develop new features, fix bugs, and try to generally improve the product. While it is simple to state that requirement, it can be hard to do in practice. There are a lot of choices an organization faces when trying to understand the performance of the... Read More

Everyone knows distributed systems are hard. At MongoDB we want to make it easy to express complex queries and extract insights from your data, but we also need to be able to scale to enormous data sets. To help you scale, we support a deployment which partitions the data amongst multiple machines, but a distributed system complicates even simple queries.... Read More

From "How many documents are in my collection?" to "What state has the highest percentage of people living in its most populous city?", there are many questions MongoDB can answer about your data. In this talk, we'll see what sorts of questions can be asked, and how MongoDB finds the most efficient way to answer them. Determining the best way... Read More

MongoDB is the next-generation database that helps businesses transform their industries by harnessing the power of data. The world’s most sophisticated organizations, from cutting-edge startups to the largest companies, use MongoDB to create applications never before possible at a fraction of the cost of traditional databases. This talk will review the feature set of MongoDB and the history and rationale... Read More

SQL databases have been the dominant form of data management since the late 1970's. However, computing and technology have evolved, leading to an influx of data and new systems to manage it. For this new generation, "Document Databases" quickly emerged as a popular solution and became widely used among companies of all sizes. Using MongoDB as the example, we'll look... Read More