MongoUK is a one-day conference dedicated to the open source, non-relational database MongoDB. The conference will feature sessions from 10gen engineers developing MongoDB on both introductory and advanced topics. In addition, several companies using MongoDB in production will highlight their use cases, including SAP, Telefonica, the Guardian, The National Archives, Boxed Ice, UberVU, and more.

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MongoUK last March

If you like the idea of this conference but are not sure what to expect, you can check out some pictures and SkillsCast video's of MongoUK held earlier this year here (click on 'more...' in each talk in the programme). These SkillsCast video's include film footage, code and slides....

Programme

Monday 19th September 2011
Track 1 9.30    SQL SERVER TO MONGODB : How The National Archives migrated its data store from SQL Server to Mongo DB and built Service-Oriented Platform to make available over 11m of historical records. more...     11.15    INDEXES, WHAT INDEXES? Alvin Richards: B-Trees, Sparse and Covered indexes and how MongoDB uses them still confusing you? In this talk Alvin Richards of 10gen will dive into the different indexes that are available, how query plans are executed and the internals of index evaluation including understanding of the explain output. more...     10:15    SCHEMA DESIGN BASICS : Max Schireson gives a talk on Schema Design Basics more...     11:45    MONGODB AT THE GUARDIAN Graham Tackley: Graham Tackley will explain how the Guardian uses MongoDB. more...     13:30    SCHEMA DESIGN AT SCALE Eliot Horowitz: Schema design is a critical step in making sure an application scales well. There are considerations for reads and writes, both with and without sharding. We'll go through a few use cases and examine how difference schemas impact performance. more...     2:15    10 KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS Brendan McAdams: We'll look at memory usage, file sizes, flushing, journaling, and all the special incantations that reveal MongoDB's true inner self. By the end of the talk, you'll have ten concrete steps you can take to address performance degradation before it happens. more...     15:00     Alvin Richards: Alvin Richards gives a talk for MongoUK on Replication and Replica Sets in MongoDB more...     15:45    SCALING MONGODB Brendan McAdams: Brendan McAdams gives a talk for MongoUK on Scaling MongoDB. more...     17:30-19:30    MONGODB PROJECT ROADMAP & CUSTOMER PANEL Eliot Horowitz closes MongoUK with an overview of the MongoDB Project Roadmap and Customer Panel more...	Track 2 9.30    NODE.JS MONGODB DRIVER : Christian Kvalheim gives an introduction to the node.js MongoDB driver more...     10:15    MONGODB ON THE JVM Brendan McAdams: In this talk for MongoUK, Brendan McAdams explores the deeper relationship between the MongoDB database and various languages on the Java Virtual Machine such as Java, Scala, Clojure, JRuby and Python as well as the challenges posted getting MongoDB to play nice with these tools and their syntax. more...     11.15    REPLACING RABBITMQ WITH MONGODB David Mytton: David Mytton of Boxed Ice will provide a detailed look at building a fault tolerant, scalable queuing system that's (almost) as fast as RabbitMQ. more...     11.45    THE STORAGE ENGINE Eliot Horowitz: Eliot Horowitz gives a presentation on Journaling and the Storage Engine for MongoUK more...     13:30    SAP'S JAVA PLATFORM AS A SERVICE : Dieter Guendisch gives an Introduction into SAP's Java Platform as a Service for MongoUK more...     14:15    STEVE FRANCIA: BLENDING MONGODB AND RDBM : Steve Francia gives a talk for MongoUK on Blending MongoDB and RDBMS for ecommerce. more...     15:00    NOSQL IN THE ENTERPRISE Julian Browne: Julian Brown of Equal Experts looks at the journey a major European mobile provider took, from its relational roots, through the understanding and selling of the benefits of NOSQL alternatives, to the selection and development of a strategic system in MongoDB. more...     15:45    DATA RETENTION WITH MONGODB : Dave Watson gives a talk for MongoUK on how MongoDB provides a flexible, efficient, scalable, long-term document storage that can adapt to your organization's changing needs over time. more...	Track 3 9.30    WEB APPLICATIONS WITH MONGODB Nosh Petigara: Nosh Petigara introduces the features of MongoDB by walking through how one can building a simple location-based checkin application using MongoDB. more...     10:15-11:00    SCALING MONGODB FOR REAL-TIME ANALYTICS : Theo Hultbert, Chief Architect at Burt will be talking about Scaling MongoDB for Real-Time Analytics more...     11:15-11:45    DATA INTENSIVE PROCESSING & STORAGE : Norberto Leite gives a talk on Data Intensive Processing & Storage using MongoDB at Telefonica I+D. more...     MONGODB: FLEXIBILITY AND AGILITY : Olivier Poupeney -- Co-Founder and CEO of DreamFace Interactive -- gives a talk on How MongoDB adds flexibility and agility to the innovation cycle required for the iterative development of modern cloud applications. more...     13:30    COMMAND LINE TOOLS Russell Smith: Russel Smith gives a talk for MongoUK on Command Line Tools and MongoDB more...     14:15    INTELLIGENT STREAM FILTERING USING MONGO : Mihnea Giurgea from UberVU, will talk on Intelligent Stream Filtering Using MongoDB on AWS. more...     15:00-15:45    USING SPRING AND MONGODB WITH CLOUDFOUND Chris Harris: Chris Harris from VMware will talk about Using Spring and MongoDB with CloudFoundry more...     15:45    GEOSPATIAL INDEXING : Greg Studer gives a talk for MongoUK on Geospatial Indexing with MongoDB more...

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