Yesterday I presented at NoSQL Now! 2013 in San Jose, CA, on how Castlight Health uses MongoDB to support low latency geospatial searches on huge amounts of health care pricing data. Given the number of parallel tracks and the total number of people attending sessions, I was pleased to get about 50 engaged people in… Read More »
My presentation at MongoDB Days SF on Friday went very well, though I got to the last slide of my 40-minute talk in just 30 minutes. Hopefully, I didn’t speak too fast for a lot of people. Fortunately, I remembered at the end that I had also wanted to talk about how I saved space… Read More »
I’m very excited that my talk proposal “Geo Searches for Healthcare Pricing Data” was accepted for MongoDB SF 2013. I’ll be speaking at 11:55 am on May 10th in the Palace Hotel Gold Ballroom about why I chose to deploy MongoDB at Castlight Health to serve large amounts of healthcare pricing data with very low… Read More »
10Gen put on another excellent MongoDB conference last Friday, this time at Microsoft Research in Mountain View. Like Mongo SF, there was a good balance between intro and advanced material, as well as between 10Gen presenters and third party presenters, like myself. Registration was smooth, sessions ran on time, they made it easy on presenters,… Read More »
I’ve very excited to be speaking on Logging Application Behavior to MongoDB at Mongo SV 2010 in Mountain View on December 3rd. Interest in the conference has soared and 10Gen is now expecting 500 attendees. Just a week ago, they were at 300 attendees. They had to add a fourth track of talks to handle… Read More »