weotta presentation at sf bay area mongodb user group feb 21 2012
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Grant Wernick, CEOJacob Perkins, CTO
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Data is stupid.
Weotta makes it smart.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Clean, Classify, & Connect
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Real world relevance
Meaningful Depth
Context that matters
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Rules based systemaugmented by NLP
MongoDB
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
MongoDB is...
FAST, FLEXIBLE, FUN&
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Disrupt Finalist
Investors and advisors include some of the top names in data, local, and search.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Focus on Local
What does for artists and songs, Weotta does for places and events.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
We Eat Our Own Dogfood
Weotta GO
Weotta STATIONS
Weotta MAKE PLANSalgorithmically generate itineraries
tap into our ‘Here & Now’ knowledge base
personalized radio applied to the real world
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Check it out...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
MongoDB at Weotta
A love story
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Trading Up
Mnesia MongoDB
Erlang Python
JSON fields Nested docs
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
No Commitments
schema-less
optional fields
add new fields
ok to use other dbs
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
On Demand
easily add new collections
fast console
simple replication
data driven UI
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
No Friction
query with dicts
advanced queries with nested dicts
index on lists & docs
python & JSON have similar data types
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Trade-offs
compute speed for memory usage
data flexibility for storage efficiency
code simplicity for free
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Weotta’s Data
store Places & Events
many incoming sources with unique fields
new sources added every month
dedup & merge into unified data
also use Redis
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
