Why I miss MongoDB

After 4 years working with MongoDB I moved to a new project using a traditional SQL database. People don't value what they have until they lose it, and even though I loved MongoDB, I never thought I would miss it so much. In this talk I will explain you why.

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1. WHY I MISS Barcelona MUG 05/03/2015 @pablitoev56
2. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 ABOUT ME •  Pablo Enfedaque Vidal •  Senior Software Engineer at Skyscanner •  More than 4 years working with MongoDB •  I love it!
3. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 MY LOVE STORY I started with MongoDB 0.8
4. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 MY LOVE STORY It was not mature enough – I left it
5. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 MY LOVE STORY I re-started with MongoDB 1.6
6. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 MY LOVE STORY And never left it
7. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 MY LOVE STORY Until 6 months ago
8. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 MY LOVE STORY And I do really miss it a lot
9. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 MY LOVE STORY And I will explain you why…
10. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 DYNAMIC SCHEMA AKA. FLEXIBLE SCHEMA
11. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 DYNAMIC SCHEMA
12. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 DYNAMIC SCHEMA Databases, collections and attributes creation on demand Really useful when running tests and while developing
13. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 DYNAMIC SCHEMA Attributes don’t have a pre-defined or fixed data type Painless schema migrations Faster development
14. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 DYNAMIC SCHEMA – BONUS! MongoDB + Dynamic Language = PERFECT LOVE STORY
15. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 DYNAMIC SCHEMA
16. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 ADVANCED DATA STRUCTURES AKA. EMBEDDED DATA MODELS
17. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 ADVANCED DATA STRUCTURES
18. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 ADVANCED DATA STRUCTURES Nested documents, arrays, arrays of nested documents… up to 16Mb Proper objects mapping to documents No clash of object oriented world vs. relational world
19. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 ADVANCED DATA STRUCTURES No JOIN, no INNER JOIN, no LEFT OUTTER JOIN… No JOIN? Yeah! You don't need them Denormalization For The Win!
20. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 ADVANCED DATA STRUCTURES
21. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 THE API AKA. QUERY SYNTAX
22. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 THE API
23. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 THE API Neat and simple yet effective and powerful API Human-friendly API Yeah, scary at first glance, but with a soft learning curve
24. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 THE API
25. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 THE API Logic out of the DB, in the code! Power to the developers! Easier to test and debug
26. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 OFFICIAL DRIVERS
27. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 OFFICIAL DRIVERS
28. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 OFFICIAL DRIVERS Official drivers for 11 languages Fully featured, high performance Painless installation Amazing support and maintenance
29. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 OFFICIAL DRIVERS
30. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 OFFICIAL DRIVERS
31. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 OFFICIAL DRIVERS Consistent API syntax, but also aligned with the language style Easy transition between languages Faster learning
32. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 OFFICIAL DRIVERS
33. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 PERFORMANCE
34. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 PERFORMANCE Came for the performance, stayed for everything else Because never had to worry for the performance again!
35. WHY I MISS MONGODB || BARCELONA MUG || @pablitoev56 QUESTIONS? I HOPE YOU ENJOYED!