These are the slides from the Docler Hollywood Code Retreat held on Saturday, April 9. The talk covered Node.js, Swift and MongoDB.

1. An introduction to
Jean-Luc David
Head of Technology
jldavid@gmail.com
Twitter: @jldavid

2. Today
09:00-10:00 AM - Arrivals and Light Breakfast
10:00-11:00 AM - Introduction to HTTP & Node.js
11:00-12:00 AM - Introduction to MongoDB
12:00-01:00 PM - Building a Simple API
01:00-02:00 PM - Light Lunch
02:00-03:00 PM - Introduction to Swift
03:00-04:00 PM - Building a Basic Store App
04:00-05:00 PM - Adding Controls, Maps & Networking
05:00-05:30 PM - Q&A and Departure

3. About Us
Docler Media is a well-funded, progressive tech startup in
Los Angeles. A part of the massive and massively
successful Docler Holding group of international
companies, we are centered around the idea of creating
unique, exciting and fun products and services.

4. Taco! Night

5. Agenda
• Learn the history of MongoDB
• Install Homebrew
• Install MongoDB
• MongoDB using a shell
• Using mLab

6. MongoDB vs SQL
• Philosophy - NoSQL vs Relational
• Data - JSON vs Binary
• Hosting - In-Memory vs on disk
• Format - Documents vs Records
• Strengths - Built for reads, not for writes
• Relationships - Joins vs MapReduce
• Performance - MongoDB vs SQL
• Schema - Strict vs Schemaless
• Queries - SQL vs BSON

7. History of MongoDB
• MongoDB (from humongous) is a cross-
platform document-oriented database
• 2007 - 10gen began developing MongoDB
as a component of PaaS.
• 2009 - the company shifted to an open
source development model, offering
commercial support & other services.
• 2013 - 10gen changes its name to
MongoDB Inc.

8. MongoDB Facts
• Component of the MEAN stack
• Database = Databases
• Table = Collection
• Record = Document
• BSON Document has a limit of 16MB

9. Performance Benchmarks

10. Thoughts About Security

11. Companies Using MongoDB

12. Installing Homebrew
xcode-select --install
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://
raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/
install/master/install)"
brew update

13. Installing MongoDB
brew install mongodb

14. Installing MongoDB Manually
curl -O https://fastdl.mongodb.org/
osx/mongodb-osx-x86_64-3.2.4.tgz
tar -zxvf mongodb-osx-x86_64-3.2.4.tgz
mkdir -p mongodb
cp -R -n mongodb-osx-x86_64-3.2.4/
mongodb
export PATH=<mongodb-install-directory>
/bin:$PATH

15. Starting MongoDB Locally
# if you get /data/db missing error
sudo mkdir -p /data/db/
sudo chown `id -u` /data/db
# in terminal window, start the daemon
mongod
# in another terminal window, start mongo
mongo

16. CREATE & READ Documents
db
use addressbook
show collections
db.customers.save({"name":"JL",
"lastname":"David"})
db.customers.find()
db.getCollectionNames()
show dbs
db.help()

17. UPDATE Document
db.customers.update({"name":"JL"},{$set:
{"name":"Jean-Luc"}})
db.customers.insert({"name":"Kolos",
"lastname":"Kaszaly"})

18. DELETE Document & Collection
db.customers.remove({“_id":"57090110d90540e8
0621a262"})
db.customers.drop()
db.dropDatabase()

19. Using mLab
http://www.mlab.com

20. Agenda
• Learn the history of MongoDB
• Install Homebrew
• Install MongoDB
• MongoDB command line
• Using mLab
• 10 Min Break