Posted by Wilfred Springer mid-afternoon: February 9th, 2011
Roger Bodamer from 10Gen, the company that develops and supports MongoDB, has agreed to come speak about all things MongoDB on Wednesday February 16th, at Xebia in Hilversum. We will start with a basic technical introduction to MongoDB but Roger knows MongoDB inside and out so feel free to suggest topics that you would like to hear more about. Of course there will be a Q&A at the end.
For more information about Roger and 10gen, have a look at their team page (he’s third from the top).
Note that we need to put a limit on the number of registrants, so if you considered joining, register now. You can register at the Dutch NoSQL Meetup page found here.
Posted by Wilfred Springer in the late afternoon: January 6th, 2011
I was listening to the JavaPosse a minute ago. Dick Wall is saying that he figures there is never going to be anything as big as Java ever again.
A couple of weeks ago, I overheard a discussion between a couple of people involved in the music business. They concluded that the days of the megastars are officially over; they didn’t think there would ever be another artist rising to the same levels of stardom as Madonna, Elvis, Michael Jackson or the Beatles.
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Posted by Friso van Vollenhoven in the early afternoon: November 29th, 2010
At Xebia, we show a lot of interest in the developing NoSQL community and all the great software and solutions that result from it. Big data analysis and heavy traffic web sites and applications are here to stay and we need solutions capable of dealing with those. The commodity stack of some flavor of relational database with a Java app server on top and the stateful model of server side sessions just doesn’t cut it in some cases. As data volume and traffic grow, these cases will present themselves increasingly often. In our App Incubator program we see a lot of interest in non relational databases and stateless server side setups with more logic on the client side (cleverly coined: NoJSP). Also, at clients the problem of ever growing data sets and the lack of options to do proper analysis with existing tools and databases starts to arise. One of these clients is the RIPE NCC. The story is roughly this: about 80GB of data comes in per day and there is ten years of historical data of the same kind and volume; we need to do queries against this and get sub-second answers. We solve this with the use of Hadoop en HBase.
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Posted by Wilfred Springer mid-morning: September 13th, 2010
Just a heads-up for everyone interested in NoSQL: the next NoSQL Meetup meeting will be held at VPRO’s headquarters, on Tuesday September 21, next week. Nils (VPRO) will talk about the adoption of CouchDB at VPRO, and Paul guide us through the remainder of the Dynamo paper. (So if you haven’t read it yet, check it out here.)