Avery’s talk at MongoNYC
On Friday, May 21st, I presented at MongoNYC. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend many of the other talks, but the event sold out, the crowd was good and the after party as Slate (sponsored by Gilt, thank you very much!) was great. It was really cool to see the turnout and I had some good conversations with people. One thing is clear — people are still working out all the right idioms and uses for MongoDB, but everyone agrees that as a product it has hit a sweet spot between fast and features.
My talk was essentially an expansion of the inaugural post on this blog — basically, we have been using MongoDB since it was at 0.9 and at this point we use it everywhere, for terabyte production datastores for front-end systems, as well as one-offs and internals. I cover these uses and why mongo is the right database for them, as well as some of the pitfalls and gotchas we have encountered while deploying mongo, like the benefits and drawbacks to one-button replication.
Here is the video of the presentation, and below, my slides.
—Avery
