I decided to go to the mongoDB conference Berlin 2010 to learn about this pretty new schema free and documented oriented database. The 100$ for the conference with three tracks of talks at the same time where really well spent. Most of the talks I listened to were very good and inspiring to try out MongoDB for real life projects.
Now a quick overview of the presentations I attended to:
Very good introduction.
mongoDB is a schema less database, but of course proper indexing and
structuring of the documents inside the database is necessary.
I learned that PyMongo offers lazy evaluation, but in general
the talk suffered from a missing structure.
Interesting talk, but not much about Django.
Again, a very good talk from Richard.
Always use 64 bit architectures for production environments and at least one slave on a different server. Performance problems can be examined with iostat
or atop
Slides at: http://www.slideshare.net/rogerbodamer/deployment
The Perl driver wasn't covered at the conference, you can find it at CPAN or GitHub.I filed a ITP bug for
this module to be packaged for Debian.