Skills Matter is pleased to announce the First Progressive NOSQL Tutorials, the annual NOSQL conference offering a unique blend of product and experience mixed, and tempered with theory and practice.

talks & hands-on tutorials

BRING YOUR OWN LAPTOP!

Each morning, this NOSQL conference will feature keynote talks from NOSQL experts, presenting a contemporary NOSQL use-case or technology. Each afternoon, you will have be able to gain practical experience and skills, by attending one of three hands-on, practical NOSQL tutorials, on specific technology stacks, which match the morning talks.

what, where, when

This annual NOSQL conference will be take place on May 9-11th, at the Skills Matter eXchange, London's meetup space for the developer community. Come and join us to gain a deep understanding of the NOSQL and big data space, though talks, discussions and hands-on workshops.

special discount until April 30th!

We are keen to put together an intimate event with lots of opportunity to learn and share skills through discussion and socialising. So we have limited the number of tickets to just 125 people, so get your skates on and register today!

programme

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Wednesday 9th May 2012
Track 1 08.30-09.00    REGISTRATION Coffee, Tea and Registration at the Progressive NOSQL Tutorials     09.00-09.15    WELCOME Jim Webber welcomes you to the Progressive NOSQL Tutorials 2012! more...     09.15-10.00    DEVELOPING WITH COUCHBASE John Zablocki: This talk will introduce application development with Couchbase Server 2.0, giving a quick tour of the server will be given along with a look at its core API. more...     10.00-10.45    COUCHDB AT THE HUT GROUP Tom McMillen: Tom will talk about the successes and stumbles of using Apache CouchDB in a Java environment at The Hut Group. more...     10.45-11.15    BREAK     11.15-12.00    DOCUMENT DATABASES Chris Harris: Starting with schema design and JSON, in this talk for the Progressive NOSQL tutorials, Chris Harris will quickly build a model and the use cases around it and then progress to the automatic sharding and replication features built into MongoDB to how how MongoDB can scale with your application needs. more...     12.00-12.45    MONGODB PERFORMANCE David Mytton: This talk for the Progressive NOSQL tutorials will examine MongoDB to point out important deployment considerations. It will include how to scale reads and writes, bottlenecks (and how to resolve them) and how to deploy redundantly across clusters of machines. more...     12.45-13.30    LUNCH     13.30-17.00    THE COUCHBASE SERVER TUTORIAL John Zablocki: Learning about developing with Couchbase Server will start by examining Couchbase and then creating a basic Couchbase Server cluster with two nodes demonstrating how easy it is to scale and expand your cluster performance. With a server installation in place, we'll look at how clients interact with the cluster and perform basic database operations across the cluster as a whole. By building an interactive application, the fundamentals of data writes, updates and reads will be covered, including more...	Track 2                                 13.30-17.00    HANDS-ON MONGODB Chris Harris: This hands-on session will introduce the features of MongoDB by walking through how one can building a simple location-based checkin application using MongoDB. The talk will cover the basics of MongoDB's document model, query language, map-reduce framework and deployment architecture. more...
Thursday 10th May 2012
Track 1 08.30-0900    REGISTRATION     09.00-0915    WELCOME Jim Webber     09.15-10.00    NEO4J HIGHLY CONNECTED DATA Jim Webber: In this talk on Managing Highly Connected Data in Neo4j for the Progressive NOSQL Tutorials, Jim Webber will lead discussion of how connected data is driving new classes of innovative applications and investigate the strengths and weaknesses of common NOSQL families for dealing handling it. more...     10.00-10.45    NEO4J TALES FROM THE TRENCHES Nicki Watt & Michal Bachman: In this talk, Nicki Watt and Michal Bachman present the lessons learned (and being learned) on an active Neo4J project - Opigram. Nicki and Michal will outline their usage of Neo4j, and some of the challenges they have encountered, as well as the approaches and implications taken to address them. more...     10.45-11.15    BREAK We break for coffee and tea.     11.15-12.00    RAVENDB Oren Eini aka Ayende Rahien: In this talk for the Progressive NOSQL Tutorials on RavenDB: A 2nd generation document database, Ayende Rahien we will get you familiar with the basic concept of RavenDB, and give you everything you need to jump into the warm waters of RavenDB. We will use real-world examples to demonstrate the way of thinking required when approaching a data model to be persisted with RavenDB. more...     12.00-12.45    RAVENDB: CHALLENGES & REWARDS Phil Jones: In this talk for the Progressive NOSQL Tutorials, Phil Jones will discuss using RavenDB with his client Escape (escapetrips.co.uk) to develop their new website and administration systems. more...     12.45-13.30    LUNCH We break for lunch.     13.30-17.00    NEO4J INTRO Jim Webber & Alistair Jones: Neo4j is an esoteric and powerful member of the NOSQL family. For highly connected data, graph databases can be thousands of times faster than relational databases, making Neo4j popular for managing complex data across many domains from finance to social, and telecoms to geospatial. This intensive half-day progressive Neo4J tutorial is a hands-on practical session to demonstrate the capabilities of graph data and Neo4j. more...     17.00 - 17.30    PIZZA & BEER We break for a slice and a brew.     17.30 - 18.30    PARK BENCH PANEL DISCUSSION While you're enjoying some more pizza & beer, join our experts on the park bench. Put any left over questions to them, and share your opinions! more...     18.30 - 18.45    BREAK We take a short break.     18.45 - 19.45    DENORMALISED The Denormalised User Group meets for their evening event. Conference goers more than welcome to hang out! more...	Track 2                                 13.30-17.00    RAVENDB CRASH COURSE Oren Eini aka Ayende Rahien: In this Progressive NOSQL tutorial, we will get to know how RavenDB works, why it works that way, and how you can take advantage of it. more...
Friday 11th May 2012
Track 1 08.30-09.00    REGISTRATION     09.00-09.15    WELCOME Jim Webber     09.15-10.00    EVENTUAL CONSISTENCY Matt Heitzenroder: In this talk for the Progressive NOSQL Tutorials, Matt considers that many businesses already know how to handle eventual consistency, and provides examples of conflict resolution taken from the real world. more...     10.00-10.45    RIAK ON DRUGS Rune Skou Larsen: In this talk, Rune Skou Larsen shares the story of implementing the Danish Shared Medicine Card, backed by Riak. The Shared Medicine Card (in Danish "Fælles Medicinkort" or FMK for short) provides access to Danish citizen's medication prescriptions, drug usage, as well as history, monitoring for those. more...     10.45-11.15    COFFEE, TEA & REFRESHMENTS We break for coffee and tea.     11.15-12.00    APACHE CASSANDRA Tom Wilkie: Apache Cassandra is a next generation database originally conceived at Facebook. It combines the best bits from Google's BigTable and Amazon's Dynamo papers, has a very active community, and is widely used at many large companies. In this talk we will cover the features unique to Cassandra and explain how it achieves things such as tuneable consistency, write-optimisation, and high availability. We will discuss the strengths (and weaknesses) of Cassandra, what it is commonly used for, and how you might use it in your application. more...     12.00-12.45    CASSANDRA X FACTOR Malcolm Box: Tellybug uses Cassandra to power the audience interaction for shows like X Factor and Britain's Got Talent. In this talk for the Progressive NOSQL Tutorials, Malcolm Box will look at some of the challenges and how we've solved them in production. more...     12.45-13.30    LUNCH We break for lunch.     13.30-17.00    RIAK TUTORIAL Ian Plosker: This hands on session from Ian Plosker for the Progressive NOSQL Tutorials will cover three main areas: a Riak Overview, Running Riak, and finally a tour of some Riak Internals. more...	Track 2                                 13.30-17.00    REAL-TIME ANALYTICS ON THE TWITTER FIREH Tom Wilkie: This workshop will involve deploying and configuring a cluster of Cassandra nodes on EC2, designing a schema, constructing a script to import data and writing a front-end to visualise the data. We will use the twitter sample firehose, which returns a random sample of all public statuses. more...

NOSQL DATABASES
dataminelab

	Streaming analytics at scale : 16th May 2013
	RavenDB & the magic beans Oren Eini aka Ayende Rahien : 15th May 2013
	Considerations for using NoSQL technolog Akmal Chaudhri : 7th May 2013
	Lightning Talks Various Speakers : 7th May 2013
	F# embedded in Excel Adam Mlocek : 25th Apr 2013
	F# embedded in Excel part 2 Adam Mlocek : 25th Apr 2013
	CASE STUDY: how OpenCorporates uses Neo4 : 24th Apr 2013
	Performance Testing Java Applications Martin Thompson : 15th Apr 2013
	How Sharehoods Created Neomodel Along Th Robin Edwards : 27th Mar 2013
	What do you mean, backwards compatibili Trisha Gee : 21st Mar 2013
	How can we use Graph Visualisations to g Sébastien Heymann : 27th Feb 2013
	Using Graph Theory & Graph Databases to Michael Cutler : 30th Jan 2013
	Using Graphs to Analyse Public Spending James Hughes : 28th Nov 2012
	NOSQL at the Crossroads Alistair Jones : 28th Nov 2012
	uSwitch.com - Our Age of Enlightenment Paul Ingles : 28th Nov 2012