MongoDB – Justin Lee

5:30-6:00 : Pizza 

6:00-8:00 : Mongo Best Practices and Latest Features

8:00 : Door Prizes 

Location 

http://ujug.org/ujug-meeting-location  

Abstract

Because MongoDB supports a “dynamic schema” much of the attention from developers comes from the Javascript and Node communities where the dynamic typing meshes well with MongoDB’s document structures.  But Java is actually a great fit for MongoDB and is actually one of the top languages used with MongoDB today.  This session will introduce new users MongoDB’s document model contrasting it with the traditional relational model most developers are used to.  We’ll briefly cover some of the pros and cons and the pitfalls new users often encounter.  We’ll walk through the Java ecosystem built on top of MongoDB starting with the Java driver before moving on to higher abstractions such as object document mapping layers like Morphia and the new Spark connector.  Time permitting, I’ll show some of the upcoming features due in the 3.4 release due out some time later this year.

More than anything else, this should be an interactive meeting so please bring your questions and we’ll work through them as time permits.

Justin Lee is a Java Champion and has been a Java developer since 1996. Since then he has had the chance to work on practically every tier conceivable for applications from web front ends to custom ORM frameworks. Most notably he was responsible for the initial websocket implementation available in GlassFish and Grizzly and is a member of the JSR 356 websockets expert group. He currently works as a software engineer for MongoDB where he contributes to the MongoDB Java driver, Hadoop and Spark integration,  and maintains Morphia, the Object Document Mapper. He’s an active member of the open source community and blogs less frequently than he intends at http://antwerkz.com