MongoDB Seattle recap

Last Friday I had the opportunity to attend and participate in the MongoDB Seattle conference down along the Seattle waterfront at Bell Harbor Conference Center. It was a great way to end a week of MongoDB-related activities around Seattle and Redmond! I met many people who are working with MongoDB and considering their options for cloud deployment, and I co-presented with 10gen software engineer Sridhar Nanjundeswaran on “MongoDB and Windows Azure.”

On the day before the conference, I caught up with Aaron Heckman, Node.js engineer at 10gen, and we recorded a video of a cool demo app he had built and deployed on Windows Azure that uses Node.js and MongoDB. Aaron knows Node.js and MongoDB very well but had never worked with Windows Azure before, so his experience is a great example of how quickly and easily Node+Mongo developers can deploy apps on Azure.

Thanks to the team at 10gen for putting on a great event, and thanks to everyone who participated and helped make it so useful and fun! You can find links to additional information about deploying MongoDB on Windows Azure over on the 10gen blog, and also be sure to check out the Windows Azure section on MongoDB.org.

For those on the US east coast, MongoDB Boston is coming up on October 24, and my colleague Jim O’Neil will be presenting on the details of running MongoDB on Windows Azure. To find other MongoDB events check out the events page on 10gen’s site, and for information on upcoming Windows Azure events see the Windows Azure Events page on WindowsAzure.com.

Doug Mahugh
Senior Technical Evangelist
Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.