Our First Athens MongoDB Meetup!

Agenda:

18:30 Registration and welcome coffee (15')

18:45 MongoDB basics by Thanasis Efthymiou (45')

Thanasis Efthymiou "wanted to work with computers" since the childhood days he couldn't afford (and never got) an 8088. He enjoyed four years developing telecom SW in Siemens, and another two years of QA in banking and mobile marketing applications. Since 2009 he is a Service Delivery Manager in Upstream and Persado, launching more promos than he can remember around the globe. His every day struggle is pursuing operational excellence and that's why he prefers automating tasks using various programming languages. When his queries won't run, he prefers cycling.

19:30 Replication & High Availability by Alexandros Giamas (30')

Alex Giamas is an avid enthusiast of non relational technologies since 2005. He has studies in NTUA, Carnegie Mellon and Stanford university in the fields of Computer Science and engineering. He has worked in Verizon and Yahoo! and for the past 3 years has led the design and implementation of the Reporting Services for the MCS platform at Upstream Systems. His interests lie from MongoDB to every mammal in the Hadoop ecosystem to NewSQL technologies.

20:00 Break (10')

20:10 Sharding by Christos Soulios (30')

Christos Soulios is a team leader and software architect at Persado. He has been working as a software engineer and architect for more than 10 years designing, implementing and rolling out software for major players of the banking and telecommunications sectors in Greece. He has studied Computer Science and holds a postgraduate degree in High Performance Computing. His main focus is highly scalable transactional systems, while enjoys learning new languages and programming paradigms.

20:40 O'Reilly books draw / Next steps (10')

20:50 Q&A over snacks