Alvin Richards
Alvin Richards, Technical Director for EMEA at 10gen. Alvin has held leadership positions at Oracle and NetApp integrating RDBMS and storage technology and has lead and grown the engineering teams for several successful Bay Area startups.
Talks I've Given
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Scaling for Humongous amounts of data with MongoDB
Featuring Alvin Richards
Life is great as your first customer signs up. Then you have your millionth signup, your data needs to span multiple machines across several geographies, the business wants more information, better accuracy and faster. Your life now sucks. Or not?
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Indexes, What Indexes?
Featuring 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.
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Replication and Replica Sets
Featuring Alvin Richards
Alvin Richards gives a talk for MongoUK on Replication and Replica Sets in MongoDB
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Scaling with MongoDB
Featuring Alvin Richards
In this talk, Alvin Richards covers Schema Design, Replication & Sharding and how they affect building a scalable system with MongoDB. You should leave with some great strategies for building your application in MongoDB that will scale as you need it to.
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