Why MongoDB was created
Dwight Merriman, 10gen

Former DoubleClick Founder and CTO Dwight Merriman wrote the first lines of MongoDB code in 2007. He drew upon his experiences building large scale, high availability, robust systems to create a new kind of database.
MongoDB Profiling and Tuning
Kenny Gorman, Shutterfly

This talk goes over various performance tuning techniques used in real world... [read more]

Why MongoDB was created
Dwight Merriman, 10gen

Former DoubleClick Founder and CTO Dwight Merriman wrote the first lines of MongoDB code in 2007. He drew upon his experiences building large scale, high availability, robust systems to create a new kind of database.
MongoDB Profiling and Tuning
Kenny Gorman, Shutterfly

This talk goes over various performance tuning techniques used in real world examples from our implementation of MongoDB at Shutterfly. We will cover various techniques including usage of the profiler, query tuning, monitoring for performance, data-modeling, data locality, and hardware setup
MongoDB at foursquare
Speaker TBA, foursquare

Foursquare is a location based social network that incorporates gaming elements. foursquare uses MongoDB to store venues and user "check-ins" into venues, sharding the data over more than 25 machines on Amazon EC2.