Meetup #15 - Migrating to AWS, Docker, cgroups, and sharding!

We have two great talks lined up for our next meetup! In this meetup the talks are focused on operations / systems infrastructure topics. They will also be of interest to developers scaling their MongoDB systems or looking to use MongoDB within containers.

A big shout out to Intercom who will host this meetup and will also talk at it. Their office is at Stephen Court 18-21 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin.

Brian Scanlan of Intercom will talk about the pitfalls and experiences of migrating from third-party hosting of MongoDB to a self-managed infrastructure. It will cover the work of Intercom's platform team on migrating Intercom’s customer data stored in MongoDB databases from a third party provider to a self-managed infrastructure hosted inside Amazon EC2. Brian is an Platform Engineer with Intercom in Dublin. This is an extended version of his Inside Intercom talk on "Do What Matters, Not What’s Shiny And New".

Marco Bonezzi of MongoDB will talk about Docker and MongoDB. It will cover Macro's investigations into MongoDB performance for sharded clusters using Dockers and using cgroups, specifically with the WiredTiger storage engine. Marco is a Technical Services Engineer with MongoDB in Dublin.

Schedule:

18:30 Doors open

• "Migrating Intercom's MongoDB data store to Amazon's EC2", Brian Scanlan, Intercom, @brian_scanlan, https://github.com/bscanlan

• "Scaling MongoDB with Docker and cgroups" - Marco Bonezzi, MongoDB, @marcobonezzi, https://github.com/sisteming

As always if you're interested to do a short or long talk about an area of expertise which involves MongoDB, a project or company of yours, feel free to contact one of the organisers directly.

Also don't forget to comment if you have topics you'd like to see discussed.

P.S. Yes, there will be swag and refreshments.