Bringing MongoDB into your organization

Introducing MongoDB into your

organization

From Punchbowl.com to YOURyan Angilly

@angilly

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

• “Bringing MongoDB into your organization” ?

• MongoDB

• What?

• Why?

• Get your feet wet

• Dive in


Punchbowl.com


• Online invitation & party planning

Punchbowl.com



• Think e-Vite, but better everywhere

Punchbowl.com




• More tools for planning your party, not just the online invites

Punchbowl.com





• Been around since 2007

Punchbowl.com






• Raised $2.5M+ -- Angels, Intel Capital, Contour Ventures

Punchbowl.com







• Deals w/ Oriental Trading, others....

Punchbowl.com








• Just rebranded from MyPunchbowl.com

Punchbowl.com









• Just announced 1M users

Punchbowl.com









• Just announced 1M users

• Recently previewed Digital Invitation Studio, the 3rd generation of our invite design software

Punchbowl.com


You.


You.

• Who here has used MongoDB?


You.

• Who here has used MongoDB?

• Why are you here?


A database

What is MongoDB?


Schema-less

What is MongoDB?


• Document based{ name: 'Ryan', email: '[email protected]', likes: ['mongodb', 'skiing', 'twitter', 'Boulder chicks'], dislikes: ['humidity', 'Sarah Palin', 'bigotry', 'The Yankees'], current_outfit: { pants: 'blue shorts', shirt: false, shoes: 'flip-flops', undies: 'wouldn\'t you like to know' }}

What is MongoDB?


mailto:[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

What is MongoDB?• NoSQL



SELECT * FROM èvents` WHERE (èvents`.èvent_key` = ‘c76c876c675c8976cc`) AND (events.deleted_at IS NULL) LIMIT 1

SELECT `designs`.* FROM `designs` WHERE (`designs`.event_id = 206039) AND (designs.deleted_at IS NULL)

SELECT `design_assets`.* FROM `design_assets` WHERE (`design_assets`.èlement_id` = 1096 and `design_assets`.èlement_type` = 'Design') AND

( (`design_assets`.`type` = 'DesignImage' ))

SELECT * FROM `save_events` WHERE (`save_events`.event_id = 206039) AND (save_events.deleted_at IS NULL) LIMIT 1

SELECT * FROM èvent_questions` WHERE (èvent_questions`.event_id = 206039) LIMIT 1

SELECT * FROM `classifications` WHERE (`classifications`.ìd` = 8) ORDER BY classifications.position ASC

SELECT * FROM `memberships` WHERE (`memberships`.user_id = 57) LIMIT 1

SELECT * FROM `papers` WHERE (`papers`.ìd` = 28) AND ( (`papers`.`type` = 'DIYPaper' ) )

SELECT * FROM `design_assets` WHERE (`design_assets`.element_id = 28 AND `design_assets`.element_type = 'Paper')

SELECT * FROM `design_assets` WHERE (`design_assets`.ìd` = 435) AND ( (`design_assets`.`type` = 'DesignPhoto' ) )

SELECT * FROM `ribbons` WHERE (`ribbons`.ìd` = 4) AND ( (`ribbons`.`type` = 'DIYRibbon' ) )

SELECT * FROM `design_assets` WHERE (`design_assets`.element_id = 4 AND `design_assets`.element_type = 'Ribbon')



SELECT * FROM èvents` WHERE (èvents`.èvent_key` = ‘c76c876c675c8976cc`) AND (events.deleted_at IS NULL) LIMIT 1

SELECT `designs`.* FROM `designs` WHERE (`designs`.event_id = 206039) AND (designs.deleted_at IS NULL)

SELECT `design_assets`.* FROM `design_assets` WHERE (`design_assets`.èlement_id` = 1096 and `design_assets`.èlement_type` = 'Design') AND

( (`design_assets`.`type` = 'DesignImage' ))

SELECT * FROM `save_events` WHERE (`save_events`.event_id = 206039) AND (save_events.deleted_at IS NULL) LIMIT 1

SELECT * FROM èvent_questions` WHERE (èvent_questions`.event_id = 206039) LIMIT 1

SELECT * FROM `classifications` WHERE (`classifications`.ìd` = 8) ORDER BY classifications.position ASC

SELECT * FROM `memberships` WHERE (`memberships`.user_id = 57) LIMIT 1

SELECT * FROM `papers` WHERE (`papers`.ìd` = 28) AND ( (`papers`.`type` = 'DIYPaper' ) )

SELECT * FROM `design_assets` WHERE (`design_assets`.element_id = 28 AND `design_assets`.element_type = 'Paper')

SELECT * FROM `design_assets` WHERE (`design_assets`.ìd` = 435) AND ( (`design_assets`.`type` = 'DesignPhoto' ) )

SELECT * FROM `ribbons` WHERE (`ribbons`.ìd` = 4) AND ( (`ribbons`.`type` = 'DIYRibbon' ) )

SELECT * FROM `design_assets` WHERE (`design_assets`.element_id = 4 AND `design_assets`.element_type = 'Ribbon')

vs.

db.events.findOne({event_key: ‘c76c876c675c8976cc’})


What is MongoDB?


What is MongoDB?

• Different (downsides)


What is MongoDB?


• Async writes


What is MongoDB?


• Async writes

• No transactions


What is MongoDB?


• Async writes

• No transactions

• Cannot get you dates


Why use it?

• Simple query syntax

• Write hashes, not SQL.


Why use it?

• Sharding


Why use it?

• GridFS


Get your feet wet.Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Pick something low risk

• Logging

• Statistics

• Data mining


Punchbowl Vendor Portal


Punchbowl Vendor Portal

• http://www.punchbowl.com/vendors

• Track searches

• Track impressions

• Use data to entice vendors to purchase listings


http://www.punchbowl.com/vendors


DiveIn.


Go all out

• Don’t just use MongoDB “relationally”

• Embrace embedded documents

• Rethink your data schema


Digital Invitation Studio



Design



Tags

Design



Tags

Photos Design



Tags

Photos

Envelope

Design



Tags

Photos

Envelope

Postage

Design



Tags

Photos

Envelope

Postage

Package

Design



Tags

Photos

Envelope

Postage

Package

Liner

Design



Tags

Photos

Envelope

Postage

Package

Liner

PaperDesign



Tags

Photos

Envelope

Postage

Package

Liner

Paper

Greeting

Design


Design


Tags

Photos

Envelope

Postage

Package

Liner

Paper

Greeting




Digital Invitation Studio• Completely rethought how we create

designs



designs

• Brand new UI



designs

• Brand new UI

• Uses MongoDB for everything design-related



designs

• Brand new UI


• We didn’t touch our invite/event system, because we didn’t need to



designs

• Brand new UI


• We didn’t touch our invite/event system, because we didn’t need to

• http://www.punchbowl.com/digital-invitations


http://www.punchbowl.com/digital-invitations




Where’s my stuff?!


Open Source is not scary.



Libraries you are used to using may not be available.

Don’t be afraid.

Needed Paperclip

Didn’t have it

Created Roachclip




Don’t be afraid.

Needed Paperclip

Didn’t have it

Created Roachclip



75 lines of code.


Don’t be afraid.

Needed Paperclip

Didn’t have it

Created Roachclip



75 lines of code.

104 lines of test


Don’t be afraid.

Needed Paperclip

Didn’t have it

Created Roachclip


Questions?


Links

• www.punchbowl.com

• www.punchbowl.com/digital-invitations

• www.punchbowl.com/vendors

• www.mongodb.org

• @angilly


http://www.punchbowl.com

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http://www.mongodb.org

http://www.mongodb.org

Credits

• Images

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/felipeskroski/2566713455/sizes/l/in/photostream/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/zesmerelda/3500706849/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/galactic/2963937719/sizes/l/in/photostream/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/oberazzi/318947873/sizes/l/in/photostream/


http://www.flickr.com/photos/felipeskroski/2566713455/sizes/l/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/felipeskroski/2566713455/sizes/l/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zesmerelda/3500706849/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zesmerelda/3500706849/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/galactic/2963937719/sizes/l/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/galactic/2963937719/sizes/l/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oberazzi/318947873/sizes/l/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oberazzi/318947873/sizes/l/in/photostream/

Technology

Bringing MongoDB into your organization