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Online Course: Introduction to NoSQL with RavenDB

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT

The course Introduction to NoSQL with RavenDB is aimed at the developer who wants to learn more about NoSQL document databases by using RavenDB. This course covers the basic of what a NoSQL document database is and why you should use a NoSQL database instead of a relational database. You will learn how to get started with RavenDB, a NoSQL document database targeted at .NET users. Besides the basics of using RavenDB you will learn how to design your documents according to Domain Driven Design, a skill that is also applicable when using other NoSQL databases or even with relational databases. Course Objectives

Take the course.

After completing this course, you should be proficient in the following:

Understand the difference between a document and a relational database.
Add the RavenDB Client and Server packages to a C# project.
Store a document in RavenDB and reload it.
Perform CRUD operations in RavenDB.
Be able to search for documents using RavenDB.
Understand the basics of Domain Driven Design and how to model your documents.

The course.

New video: Scaling & Sharding with RavenDB

Fri, 11 May 2012 01:42:29 GMT

In this video Oren shows just how easy it is to scale out with RavenDB.

Starting with a discussion on replication, fail-over and read striping, and then moving on to the different modes of Sharding - namely Blind sharding, and Data driven sharding.

View it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPnfT36P7Cs

Our YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/HibernatingRhinos?feature=mhee

DotNetRocks RavenDB show

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:41:02 GMT

Carl and Richard talk to John Bennett and Colin Hicks from MSNBC along with Oren Eini about the role RavenDB has played in building applications. John talks about how MSNBC was using SQL Server essentially as a blob store, storing stories as XML documents inside of the database. The conversation digs into the challenges of running a web site with well over a billion page views a month, the impact of breaking news on traffic, and how RavenDB solves the document storage problem effectively for MSNBC.

Listen to the show!

Microgroove builds Getmusic.com.au with RavenDB

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:55:18 GMT

The site was built and hosted by Microgroove, a software development company based in Seattle. At its foundation, Getmusic is powered by the Microgroove Music Platform, although a substantial amount of custom development was required for project specific functionality.

You can read the full testimonial here, including how RavenDB was brought in to help resolve a performance problem. The testimonial explain how the previous troublemaker pages are now among the fastest performing pages on the site, thanks to RavenDB's map/reduce and the modeling flexibility that allowed Microgroove to avoid SELECT N+1 issues.

Read it all.

New video: User story - MSNBC and RavenDB

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:20:53 GMT

RavenDB is in heavy us inside MSNBC.COM, running some of their most interesting assets.

We hosted the MSNBC development team for a Webinar to learn what it is like to run RavenDB on the most popular U.S. news site.

In their own words: "we're using RavenDB, loving it, and plan to use it much more".

Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04bLT5XQH2I

Webinar: Sharding with RavenDB

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:07:58 GMT

Sharding allows you to horizontally partition your database. RavenDB includes builtin support for sharding, and in this webinar, we will discuss in detail how to utilize it, how it works and how you can best use it in your own projects.

Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT

Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/729216138

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

PluralSight RavenDB Course

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 07:53:24 GMT

Raven DB is a document database that is part of the NoSQL movement of databases that don't use relational models and SQL. In this course you will learn how Raven DB works and how to use Raven DB in a .NET application. This is an introductory level course, but we will dive deep into Raven itself to get a good understanding of how this document database stores and retrieves your data.

Click here to watch the course.

Authored by: John Sonmez
John Sonmez is a software developer for TrackAbout. He has a passion for technology and strongly believes that simple is best when it comes to programming. He maintains a blog dedicated to that theme at http://simpleprogrammer.com.

MSNBC.COM & RavenDB Webinar

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:45:59 GMT

RavenDB is in heavy use inside MSNBC.COM, running some of their most interesting assets.

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PST, we will host the development team for doing that in our RavenDB Webinar to learn what is it like to run RavenDB on the most popular U.S. news site.

In their own words: "we’re using RavenDB, loving it, and plan to use it much more".

In this webinar, we will talk with members of the development team responsible for that, learn how they:

deal with RavenDB in production
manage geo distribution with RavenDB
rapidly make changes in both development and production.

Please register to the webinar, we have a limited amount of participants, so make sure to register in advance.

And bring your own questions, we will open this up for the audience to ask their own questions.

RavenDB TekPub Production

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:49:24 GMT

In this TekPub production Ayende and Rob are going over a wide range of topics about RavenDB. From why you want to use RavenDB to understanding document modeling and querying to discussing the details of replication, administration and deployment.

You can get a glimpse of what it looks like by clicking on the link and you can register for the series by clicking on this link.

Escape Trips runs faster on RavenDB

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:06:11 GMT

Escape Trips from the United Kingdom

Escape Ltd provides Stag and Hen Weekends via their EscapeTrips.co.uk website.

After going to production with their new RavenDB based system, they realized that RavenDB was so much faster and more efficient then their previous solution, they could actually move to a smaller server and save the hosting costs. All of that, with actually seeing an increase in the system performance.

Check their full testimonial here.