Presentation: "Why I chose MongoDB for guardian.co.uk"
Time: Friday 12:05 - 13:05
Location: Fleming Room, Third Floor
There are many competing technologies available in the NoSql space, with differing approaches, advantages & disadvantages. How is it possible to choose between them?
In this talk Mat Wall will disucuss the process that led to the choice of MongoDB as a key technology for the future of guardian.co.uk. He will focus on aspects of MongoDB that have allowed The Guardian to sucessfuly reduce complexity in their code & systems architecture while at the same time increasing capacity, and describe the approach taken by The Guardian to migrate existing services from a relational model to a NoSQL approach.