Thursday the 25th of April, 2013 :: 18:30 - 22:30 Sign-Ups 89 / Attendees 62
Would firstly like to thank all those that attended and made such a wonderful evening possible. Without you and your interest in life beyond SQL, we would not have been able to launch our community initiative in style. Your thirst for knowledge inspires us to do more! Let's also take this opportunity to thank our generous sponsors (GeoMash, Mindvalley, Acunu and Plan Your Wedding), without which, we would not have been able to have such fabulous food, not to mention buy prizes to bribe you into talking to us during the Q&A sessions!
So what went-down on that fateful night where history was made...?
We started the evening by first covering our official mission statement:
It is the mission of NoSQLasia.org to provide free access to NoSQL news, event placement, product announcements and service promotion for individuals, companies and organizations throughout South East Asia.
I then gave a Martin Fowler inspired introduction to NoSQL and set the stage for our three domain-specialists:
- Rickard Oberg from Neo4j Introduced Graphs
- Tristan Gomez from Mindvalley Introduced Aggregates
- Ruben Tan Discussed Client-Side Storage
In order to entice the audience to participate during the Q&A sessions, we did a little experiment. We told everyone that with each question, we would add their name to a hat, and raffle of a rather swanky prize at the end of the evening. "How did that experiment go?" You may ask... Let's just say it's the first time we had to bring the questions to an end in order to get on to the next presentation. The prize was a wifi-enabled 1TB hard-drive with media-playback functionality and was quite resentful when finally handing it over to the winner!
I've also attached a few photos and the presentations below - for more details and comments, please visit our NoSQL KL Group.
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Presentations
Mark Smalley kicked-off the event with a Fowler-Induced Introduction to NoSQL
Rickard Oberg from Neo4j was our guest speaker and introduced graphs:
Tristan Gomez from Mindvalley then discussed aggregate operations:
Ruben Tan ended the evening with a discussion regarding client-side storage:
Additional Learning Material & Relevant References
In addition to the NoSQL Asia GitHub account, where we try to collect as much source material as possible for you to freely use, some other references from this particular event that may be of interest to you include:
The full Martin Fowler introduction to NoSQL:
You could also learn more about graph databases from Emil Eifram, the founder and CEO of Neo-Technology: