Webinars | Compose

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Previously Recorded Webinars

An Introduction to MongoDB at Compose

Tuesday, March 14th, 2017 @ 3pm EDT • 30 min

At 10-years old, MongoDB remains one of the most popular NoSQL databases {{more}}used by developers for building highly scalable applications. Yet, despite its immense popularity, we find many users new to Compose are unsure how MongoDB works, what sets it apart from other databases, how to work with its JSON-like data structure, etc. If you're new to MongoDB, this webinar is a good first stop for learning more.

In addition to offering an excellent overview of 'What is MongoDB?' the video also explains what's included with the Compose cloud hosting services — high-availability configuration, auto-scaling, storage options including WiredTiger, the Compose web UI, availability zones, and more. If you're considering giving Compose for MongoDB a try, this recording is for you.

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Wesley David

Support Engineer @ Compose

Building a Multi-Database Application with Compose

Tuesday, December 13th, 2016 @ 3pm EDT • 60 min

The cloud marketplace — as well as the developers building applications {{more}}& services atop it — require flexible options on deployments and platform. They need the ability to provision databases across multiple vendors and platforms. Compose is a managed platform for industry best-practice delivery & configuration of open source technologies, including: High availability, Automated backups, True elastic scalability, and Database management via an intuitive, consistent dashboard. In this webinar, learn how platforms like Compose can help you build battle hardened, open source data layers across leading cloud vendors like IBM Bluemix, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Chris Bienko is the co-author of several publications on modern database and analytics technologies, including Big Data Beyond the Hype and multiple IBM RedBooks. As part of IBM’s World-Wide Technical Sales organization, he supports enterprises in their adoption of the IBM Cloud Data services portfolio. Over the better part of three years, he has navigated the cloud computing domain, enabling IBM customers and sellers to stay abreast of these rapidly evolving technologies.

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Chris Bienko

Author & Technical Sales Executive @ IBM

Getting started on Compose for MySQL

Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 @ 2pm EDT • 33 min

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Chris Winslett

Developer of MySQL @ Compose

IoT - Databases and Devices

Thursday, November 17th, 2016 @ 12pm EDT • 39 min

Data is all around us waiting to be gathered, pushed into databases and analyzed. The Internet of Things is a still emerging technology and there's a lot of different technlogies, protocols and devices to consider.{{more}}In this webinar we'll be looking at some of the practicalities of bringing databases and the Internet of Things together.

We will start with a simple sensor and look at the ways to get that online. Starting from the 'first mile' with from USB and WiFi, to Bluetooth up to local systems and LoRa and GSM to systems in the cloud. There'll be a look at websockets and MQTT and other protocols to transport your sensor information up to and around the cloud. From there, we'll look at logging data in MongoDB, PostgreSQL, updating key/value stores like Redis and turning MQTT into RabbitMQ, all using Node Red as an example.

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DJ Walker-Morgan

Technical Content Creator @ Compose

ScyllaDB on Compose

Wednesday, November 9th, 2016 @ 2pm EDT • 28 min

More and more, applications must manage extreme volumes of data, requiring lower latency, higher throughput, and increased performance. Compose and ScyllaDB recently launched a solution to meet these requirements with {{more}} ScyllaDB-as-a-service. ScyllaDB, a Cassandra-write-from-scratch, leverages all the good things from Cassandra together with state-of-the-art implementation in C++ and kernel bypass techniques which lead to 10X the performance.

In this webinar you will get an overview of Scylla, and learn how Scylla: uses a fraction of the hardware, offers low maintenance (there is no Garbage Collection as it is written in C++14), supports both CQL and Thrift protocols to eliminate any application modification when you transfer your workload to a Compose-managed service.

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Eyal Gutkind

Solution Architect @ Scylla

A Real Use Case with NiFi, the Swiss Army Knife of Data Flow

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016 @ 2pm EDT • 38 min

There are many tasks which require moving data. Some streaming, some syncing, and some just putting things in their place. Sounds easy until you get started: What happens when something fails? Where did that record come from?{{more}}The inserts are backing up due to a spike in traffic. We might drop some data. My simple data export/import script just got real complicated when we added that third party data enhancement check. We lost a whole week's data dump when we deleted the source records and the archive process failed! How do I know what's happening inside my ETL processing?

This webinar will be a deep dive on how NiFi, the data flow server born in the NSA, works. Yet it will still be broad enough to get you up to speed quickly. In this presentation, we will cover: Installing and configuring a NiFi server on AWS. Deploying a custom Javascript processor based on npm and Node. Looking at how the core of NiFi is extended with Java. Review some real world examples of data flows. Open it up for questions.

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Hays Hutton

Technical Content Creator @ Compose