Lau-Labs

We hosted KL MUG #1 (our first MongoDB user-group) last night, which was generously sponsored by 10gen, the company behind MongoDB. Not only was it our first user-group, it was also the first time our company have hosted any form of public gathering – and to make things even more nerve-racking, it was also the first time I planned to give a presentation.

Introducing MongoDB & Why I Love it!

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Getting back to the topic at hand – I was somewhat surprised that anyone made it – especially with it being the first one – so really, thanks ever so much for coming and showing so much excitement for the coming months – for all those skeptics out there – the proof is in the pudding – so here goes:

We spent the first hour sitting in a circle getting to know each other and eating some damn fine pizza, after which, I presented a quick introduction to MongoDB which focused on the reasons why I (as a front-end designer / developer who should hate all things administrative and databasey) love it so much – Ali then took centre stage and provided a live hands-on session where he set-up an instance on Amazon EC2 and got the latest mongo drivers installed and ready to rock. We then discussed potential topics for next month, which included an interest in replica-sets and sharding, NodeJS and MongoDB as well as streaming video and audio with GridFS.

Please do join the Meet-Up group – http://www.meetup.com/KL-MongoDB-User-Group/, which is the preferred method that 10gen have asked us to organise things through – so until next time; may the force be with you! : -)