An Architect's View

It's Sunday afternoon after the best cf.Objective() ever and I'm looking over my notes to offer some thoughts on the last three days.

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The slides and code for my third presentation at cf.Objective() 2013 are now online:

• Humongous MongoDB slides (PDF)
• Humongous MongoDB populate and use replica sets and sharding code (Github)

The slides and code for my second presentation at cf.Objective() 2013 are now online:

• ORM, NoSQL and Vietnam slides (PDF)
• ORM, NoSQL and Vietnam mini-blog code (Github)

Updated with the correct PDF link - sorry about that!

Other than noting back in January that all three(!) of my talk proposals were accepted, I haven't blogged about them since, so the only information about them is on the cf.Objective() web site. The session overviews give a fair sense of what you should get out of each presentation and roughly what they'll cover.

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CongoMongo (on Github) has just received a small update today, adding a few more advanced features:

• read preference supported (per-connection, per-collection, per-fetch) - Niclas Meier
• add-index! supports :background true/false - dwwoelfel
• namespaced keyword keys in maps are roundtripped correctly - Adam Clements

See also CongoMongo on clojars.

[UPDATED] Welcome to 2013 and at World Singles we are expanding our development team! We're looking for self-motivated people in two very different roles, working remotely from their home office.

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I just got notified that my proposals for cf.Objective() 2013 were accepted. Here are the titles:

• Learn You a What for Great Good?
• ORM, noSQL and Vietnam
• Humongous MongoDB

What are each of those about?

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I recently completed 10gen's MongoDB for Developers online course. It was the first time they had run the course so there were a few bumps in the road - and Superstorm Sandy closed 10gen's New York office for a while - but overall it went very smoothly, especially considering they had over 20,000 students sign up!

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I just posted that I'll be learning Python in 2013 and going to PyCon. I hadn't actually intended to start doing Python until January - but then I signed up for 10gen's MongoDB for Developers course...

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World Singles is looking for a smart, motivated developer to join our small, fully distributed team of engineers, working on our multi-lingual, multi-tenant Internet dating platform. We're after someone with strong data management skills who can help us mine and analyze data in both MySQL and MongoDB, as well as help us leverage both more effectively. For more details: http://bit.ly/worldsinglesjob

The World Singles code base is a blend of CFML and Clojure - this role would be mainly on the Clojure side of the house but the primary skills needed are MySQL / MongoDB.