The day before this years MongoSV Conference a few folks, chosen by 10gen, and labelled the Masters of MongoDB gathered to discuss the MongoDB platform, swap war stories, share gripes, and overall give feedback on the direction and roadmap of MongoDB to the 10gen folks.

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I was sorry to miss the event as some really good stuff was being discussed. Paul has some really great points about single server performance at the Q&A at the end.

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I had a great time presenting at MongoSV <a href=http://www.kennygorman.com/wordpress/?p=776>last year</a>.  This year I am presenting a talk on MongoDB performance tuning, similar to what I <a href=http://www.kennygorman.com/wordpress/?p=818>presented at MongoSF</a> but with some updated items around scalability, tuning, and hardware!  My college Luciano Resende is also speaking.  I hope to give some insight into some of the work we have done at Shutterfly around performance tuning and scalability.  I also hope to speak in more detail about our implementation of the <a href=https://github.com/facebook/flashcache/>Facebook Flashcache</a> technology.  If you haven’t signed up, you can register here for the conference. Here is a video 10gen put out for the conference:

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MongoDB has a nice wide sweet spot where it’s a very useful persistence platform, however, it’s not for everything. I thought I would quickly enumerate a couple great use cases that have come up in the last year and a half and why they are such a great fit for MongoDB.

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Here are my slides from MongoSF 2011:

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I am very excited to speak @ MongoSF 2011. We have been doing quite a bit of performance tuning lately at Shutterfly as we deploy more and more MongoDB services. My hope is I can share some of what we have been doing in terms of performance tuning and performance management and it will be valuable to folks who may face performance challenges with MongoDB. I just wanted to put up some of the specific items I will be going over:

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