Rick Copeland

Rick Copeland
Software Engineer, SourceForge.net / GeekNet

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Rick Copeland is a software engineer at Geeknet, the company that owns the websites SourceForge, Slashdot, ThinkGeek, and FreeCode. Rick is the primary author of Ming, a Python object mapper for MongoDB, as well as Zarkov, a MongoDB-based event logging and aggregation framework. Rick has participated in several initiatives at SourceForge using MongoDB and Python. Prior to GeekNet, Rick worked in fields from retail analytics to hardware chip design. He holds MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Bachelor of Computer Engineering degrees from Georgia Tech and a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from Eckerd College.

Sessions

5:20pm Wednesday, 07/21/2010
Scaling SourceForge with MongoDB
Databases
 Location: Portland 255
Tags: database, nosql, databases, non-relational_databases, non-relational, non-relational_database, mongodb, sourceforge, geeknet
Nosh Petigara (10gen), Rick Copeland (SourceForge.net / GeekNet)
Average rating: ***..
(3.93, 15 ratings)
The need for database systems that scale efficiently has led to many alternatives to the traditional RDBMS. This talk presents an overview of these new non-relational databases, collectively referred to as "NoSQL," followed by an in-depth examination of SourceForge.net's deployment of MongoDB, an open-source NoSQL database. Read more.
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