#title mongoDB conference Berlin 2010
#author Stefan Hornburg (Racke)
#topics blog; mongoDB; Perl; Python
#date 2010-10-05
#pubdate 2010-10-05T20:16:47+02:00
#lang en



I decided to go to the [[http://www.10gen.com/conferences/mongoberlin2010][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:

***** Introduction to MongoDB (Richard Kreuter)

Very good introduction.

***** Schema Design Basics (Roger Bodamer)

mongoDB is a schema less database, but of course proper indexing and

structuring of the documents inside the database is necessary.

***** PyMongo and Python Development (Markus Gattol)

I learned that PyMongo offers lazy evaluation, but in general

the talk suffered from a missing structure.

***** Django MongoDB Backend: Using Django for Web Development (Flavio Percoco Premoli)

Interesting talk, but not much about Django.

***** Indexing and Query Optimizer (Richard Kreuter)

Again, a very good talk from Richard.

***** Administration (Mathias Stearn)

Always use 64 bit architectures for production environments and at least one slave on a different server. Performance problems can be examined with <code>iostat</code> or <code>atop</code>

***** Thoughts on Deployment (Roger Bodamer)

Slides at: [[http://www.slideshare.net/rogerbodamer/deployment][http://www.slideshare.net/rogerbodamer/deployment]]

***** Scaling with MongoDB (Eliot Horowitz)

***** Map/reduce, geo indexing, and other cool features (Mathias Stearn)

The Perl driver wasn't covered at the conference, you can find it at [[http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?MongoDB][CPAN]] or [[http://github.com/mongodb/mongo-perl-driver][GitHub]].I filed a [[http://bugs.debian.org/599219][ITP bug]] for

this module to be packaged for Debian.