MongoDB vs. RDBMS by +N & MongoDB + Node.js design decisions for Starviber

Anand "Kumi" Nandakumar will discuss his decisions with MongoDB and Node.js for his startup, Starviber.

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Starviber aims to become the worlds leading platform for fan engagement and real-time analytics in the entertainment and event space. By allowing users to become more intimately involved in their entertainment experience, Starviber will allow its customers to access everything from movement data, subjective ratings, and other behavioral information to be utilized in targeted promotions, product development, and important business decisions. With Starviber, fans get to be part of it and partners get to know their audience better than ever.

http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/1/1/e/6/event_90424582.jpegAnand "Kumi" Nandakumar (http://twitter.com/kumi360) is an obsessive technology lover, master at fixing computers and a developer at heart. After finishing his bachelors degree in computer science and engineering from University of Madras, India. He went on to get his masters in advanced software engineering from University of Sheffield, UK. After which he has helped fortune 500 companies like Walt Disney, TV Guide, NBC, SONY etc. build their infrastructure to support next generation of innovation.

Nuri Halperin will discuss the distinctions between MongoDB and RSBMS and delve into the details of necessary DB maintenance, drawing parallels and contrast to traditional storage engines, handling of writes, reads and queries.

Nuri Halperin is the Principal for +N Consulting Inc in Santa Monica. Nuri brings over 15 years of development and leadership experience in the dot-com, E-Commerce and corporate space. He is active in the coding community, blogs, provides training, mentoring and often collaborates with startups. His passion for efficient computing, SDLC perspective and attention to both big picture as well as low level detail bring a unique and valuable contribution to every project he engages in. http://www.plusnconsulting.com (http://www.plusnconsulting.com/)

Factual (http://www.factual.com)

Factual was founded in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, co-founder of Applied Semantics (which launched ASI's AdSense product). Applied Semantics was acquired by Google in 2003. Gil has had a lifelong passion for organizing and structuring information, and building smart tools which can make better sense of data. To that end, he set out to develop an open data platform and community in an effort to maximize data accuracy, transparency, and availability. Fellow data lovers -- Tim Chklovski, chief scientist & founding engineer, Eva Ho, an ex-Googler, along with Bill Michels, former GM of Yahoo BOSS, have joined him in this ambitious project.

Parking

Factual is in the Gateway West building, next to the Westfield Century City mall on the east side. It's the only building with big red "Westfield" signs on top.

We recommend you park at the mall. You get 3 hours free and our building is a short easy walk: Exit from the mall parking garage up to ground level, head east, pass the Lens Crafters, and you'll be able to enter the west side of 1801. Then just hit the elevators to go up to floor 14, and Factual is in Suite 1450.

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