Another example of 10gen winning a highly technical market not through technical prowess but with superior marketing. I'd rather not argue whether MongoDB is better than other NoSQL solutions or RDBMS. But I do applaud their effort to get developers up and running with MongoDB quickly and easily, especially in contrast to $1000+ support/training for MySQL and Postgres.

Very cool. We're battling Mongo as we speak. Never ran into a problem where you have to run a compaction on a DB before, would love to know of a way to automate this like every other DB I've ever used. It's probably something I've glossed over and I'm sure in the first 5 min I'll be slapping my forehead.

Btw, do we get a free mongoDB sticker set to us on completion? I lost my last one.

Just registered for both the developers course and admin course. MongoDB 2.2 new features are awesome, specifically the aggregation framework and the concurrency improvements. I am looking forward to the courses, which are scheduled to start on Oct 22nd and are created in partnership with edX.

Trying to view the Terms of Service leads me to an error page. http://education.10gen.com/tos

Fantastic! Wish there was a brief explanation of the course format though - is it streaming? Email delivery? Can we watch at our own pace?

One of the bigger hurdles I had to deal with at my work at a :BigComapny was getting mongo installed. But even on our older systems I had no trouble with their provided packages. Which you wouldn't think would be notable, but it is. Actually getting the software to run in arguably the most important part.

I will not create an account unless I see a curriculum or course description on this web site. I don't know what will be the difficulty level of the course etc. I don't get why they can't write one or two descriptive paragraphs.

OK, good move on 10gen's part. It would be great to see course outlines as well.

Smart move, going with edX & offering certificates of completion.

Seems very cool and an enjoyable and solid way to take the time to really absorb this stuff. However, from the description it doesn't sound like anything that you couldn't work through hands-on, from the website within say 1-2 weeks, if you focused on it.

M102: MongoDB for DBAs

http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-o... http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-d...

http://try.mongodb.org/ type 'tutorial'

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Import+Export+Tools

http://www.10gen.com/presentations/mongosv-2011/a-mongodb-re...

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Indexes

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Indexing+Advice+and+FAQ

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Sharding+Introduction

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Simple+Initial+Sharding+...

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Sharding

http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/administration/sharding-archi...

http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/faq/sharding/

http://www.10gen.com/presentations/mongosf-2011/backing-up-m...

http://www.mongodb.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=19562846

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Replica+Sets

These look like excellent courses. Particularly the M102 course for DBAs. Thanks.