Category: MongoDB

  • Coffee with Ram Shriram

    Ram Shriram (Shaerpalo Ventures profile) was in Bangalore for a day. He packed in 2 events at [24]/7’s new campus on Outer Ring Road. At the first event title In Conversation with Ram Shriram – Managing Partner, Sherpalo Ventures organised by iSpirt, he answered queries from scores of entrepreneurs. He wants more higher education institutions […]

  • ELK intro and Elasticsearch lessons from production

    ELK stands for ElasticSearch, Logstash and Kibana. I had become acquainted with this during MongoDB Day – Bangalore on 19 May 2014 by Susheel Zaveri’s excellent talk. So, I was overjoyed, when the Elasticsearch Meetup Bangalore’s First Meetup coincided with my trip on 27 Sep 2014. Elasticsearch has got an open, RESTful API that makes it […]

  • Writeup on MongoDB Meetup at Jabong

    Mongo Dilli (meetup url) held its meetup at Jabong on Aug 22, 2014. We started around 6:15 after initial introduction of participants. At least a quarter of them were using MongoDB in production, while few had just started looking at it. About half of them had not tried MongoDB yet, but were extremely interested in […]

  • MongoDB World Recap

    Check out MongoDB World videos and presentations. Feel free to check out the keynote sessions, as well as most popular customer and internal sessions at MongoDB World. Watch Most Popular Sessions Mythbusting: Understanding How We Measure the Performance of MongoDB – https://www.mongodb.com/presentations/mythbusting-understanding-how-we-measure-performance-mongodb Retail Reference Architecture: Flexible, Searchable, Low-Latency ProductCatalog – https://www.mongodb.com/presentations/retail-reference-architecture-flexible-searchable-low-latency-product-catalog Replication Internals: The Life of […]

  • Mumbai MongoDB Meetup’s first session

    Mumbai MongoDB Meetup group started late last year and had it’s first meetup on Feb 8th, Saturday. The speaker, Anand George, a MongoDB and Node.JS professional gave an excellent introduction. A MEAN (MongoDB, Express.JS, AngularJS, Node.JS) user for past 2 years, he showed a presentation and then went on to show CRUD in front of […]

  • MongoDB Afternoons in Delhi and Bangalore

    MongoDB held its 1st set of events, 10 months after opening its offices in heart of Cybercity, Gurgaon. An Afternoon in New Delhi The event started with a welcome note by Rajnish Verma, Director Sales, MongoDB India. I went next with a talk on Schema Design in Document NoSQL World discussing about Blog System. Before […]

  • MongoDB introduction talk at Dr Dobbs Conference Bangalore, Pune in April 2014

    Dr Dobbs Conference held its maiden conference in India in Bangalore on 11 and 12 April. Organized by UBM, it saw good presentation on Hadoop, MongoDB, source code analysis etc. Yours truly presented an introduction to document database MongoDB. After giving a brief introduction to different nosql database, I went on to describe various aspects […]

  • Cloudera, an Apache Hadoop implementor raises an insane 900m

    Cloudera just completed a $900M funding round. This incorporates the $160M they announced a week or so ago. This is obviously great for Cloudera. For just 18% of the company they got $740M from Intel (plus sold away a few other equity points to other investors). It also signifies something more: The complete shape of data […]