MongoDB World Day 1
I had a chance this week to attend the first ever MongoDB world held in NYC June 24th and 25th. This blog will bring together my notes from the 2 days spent attending the conference and sessions.
To start the day we were greeted by a gigantic registration line.
Fortunately I didn’t see the line and walked through the lobby right up to registration to retrieve my badge. Sometime being clueless has its advantages.
Communicate with the community.
The community was welcomed to the first conference by the head of marketing where the conference was compared to meeting family at thanksgiving. You may not like them or know them to well but you have the common connection as family, in this case it’s the community of MongoDB Nosql users and developers.
Max Schireson, CEO MongDB -Keynote
The Next 40 years of data
After a quick joke that the registration issues was caused by “scale” issues (lol by the “audience”) Max began by talking about data in the future. First the past was about the relational DB where data was Neat and tidy (Invented 44 years ago) and was the infrastructure for data. But the world has changed. Relationship DB’s are still based on the punch card, with some evolution in that now it’s the PC, not the punch card, used to enter data into the relationship DB. Now the world is interactive and the application is more demanding. Its not about just transactions, its about interaction with customers. Apps should be built in months not years.
90% data created in last 2 years and unstructured data is growing at twice the speed of structured data. We need to optimize the interaction with customers by breaking down silos and looking at all the data. This is not what the relationship db was designed for. This is why we need new infrastructure.
Who wins in the Big Data Gold Rush
Google took data that we all have access to and were able to make sense and monetize this. It was done through opensource, couldn’t have been done in any ELA environment. The advent of opensource and cloud really shifted the market.
This is seen in the community built around the MongoDB community and the ecosystem with Cloudera, IBM, and SAP.
Customer stories
Mailbox – within weeks it scaled to millions of users, Scale effortlessly
BOSCH – Adapt to known and unknown data based on the internet of things
MetLife – Unlock your data, policy data in 70 different systems. Tried for years to pull it together for years in relational DB. 90 days to bring it together in Mongo
City of Chicago – Build a better city, predictive analytical system built on Mongo and Hadoop
CITI – Improve efficiency while boosting innovation. MongoDB serve for everyone to deploy.
Mongo db can help from curing cancer to finding you soul mate with online .
The Future
Concurrency, storage, management
Hugs all around, let’s work together!!! Next up Chairman of Cloudera Mike Olsen
MongoDB changing what is being done in data management.
Bang – past data generated by people. Today data generated by things. Machines are much better at generating data and is why Big Data is happening. Data is growing faster than Moores law due to the proliferation of devices across the planet.
Old- build great big centralized data management systems. Good for human scale generated data. No good for machine generated data.
New – new small flexible incremental by google and created a new way to think about hardware, software, and data that scales for machine generated data.
Cloudy- Huge source, repository to capture store and analyze data
Live where born – data will not be centralized. It will be kept at its source, either on premises or in the cloud managed by systems that are located at the source either on site or in the cloud. Data center of the future will span firewalls.
Dave Weinberger – small pieces loosely joined. Architect of the internet is a philosophy where things live where born and connect.
Culture – robert wright nonzero, zero sum games don’t apply anymore. Progress is driven by collaboration and small pieces loosely joined together. Fundamental to the internet.
Enterprise data hub – only useful if it can talk to other systems. Small pieces joined together in a nonzero game. Example Cloudera and Teradata working together. A fabric that connects all the pieces with consumption driven by the problem not the tech.
Disrupt bah humbug – transform not disrupt.
The keynote was very good and really set the stage for the sessions the rest of the day. The tage line of “small pieces loosely joined together” was the theme of many of the sessions I attended.
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