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Luigi Ray-Montanez
June 26, 2012
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Developer Happiness & MongoDB
Given at MongoDC on June 26, 2012.
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June 26, 2012
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Transcript
Developer Happiness & MongoDB Luigi Montanez MongoDC 2012
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Became My Default
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Using MongoDB makes me happy.
“Ruby is designed to make programmers happy.” -- Matz
“Happiness has a cascading e!ect. Happy programmers do the right
thing. They write simple, readable code. They take clean, expressive, elegant approaches. They have fun.” -- gettingreal.37signals.com
Collaboration
Creativity
Collections of JSON Documents
Idea #1: Freedom of Choice
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NoSQL == No Dogma
Idea #2: Creative Control
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{ 'title': 'The NoSQL Shootout', 'published_at': '2012-06-26T09:15:00', 'content': 'Lorem ipsum...',
'author': { 'id': '47cc67093475061e3d95369d', 'name': 'Luigi Montanez' }, 'tags': ['nosql', 'mongodb', 'redis', 'couchdb'], 'comments': [ { 'name': 'Jon Snow', 'email': '
[email protected]
', 'comment': 'Lorem ipsum...' }, ... ], 'recommended': [ { 'title': 'Meditations on MongoDB', 'path': '/2012/02/meditations-on-mongodb' }, ... ] }
Idea #3: Broad Suitability
JSON
// JavaScript console db.blog_posts.find( { tags: 'mongodb' } ); #
Ruby driver blog_posts.find( { 'tags' => 'mongodb'} ) // PHP driver $blog_posts->find( array( 'tags' => 'mongodb' ) );
ORM ODM
Minimum Viable Features GridFS Geo Map/reduce Full-text search
1. Freedom of Choice 2. Creative Control 3. Broad Suitability
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