Supporting distributed global workforce of contributors with MongoDB

1. Forbes
Supporting distributed global workforce of contributors with
MongoDB

2. David Dunlop Vadim Supitskiy

3. Since 1917

4. On the Web since 1996

5. Forbes 400
Celebrity 100
Billionaires

6. The Old Stack
2010 and before
Java (Tomcat)
Slide ➡ Alfresco
Perl (iw perl)
Oracle (8i)
MySQL
Autonomy Idol Search
Apache
Static Files
javascript
wordpress

7. We Became
very cautious about touching
Core Content

9. 2010

10. Looked at
Big Iron CMS

12. WordPress

14. Thinking
Larger

15. Distributed Workforce

17. The Stack
Programing Languages - JAVA, PHP
Application Framework - Spring
Object Mapping Library - Morphia
Templating - Apache Velocity
Contributor Platform - Wordpress
Transport - Mule ESB
Search - Solr
Webstore - MongoDB

19. Structure of Data
Mapping
Content
Authors
Comments
PromotedContent

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"className": "com.forbes.forbesapi.model.Content",
"naturalId": "blogAndPostId/blog/post/985-1773",
"source": "blogs",
"author": "Kurt Badenhausen",
"title": "The NBA's Endorsement Stars",
"date": "Thu Jun 02 2011 23:05:37 GMT-0400 (EDT)",
"body": "...",
"blogType": "individual",
"type": "blog",
"storyType": "post",
"uri": "http://blogs.forbes.com/kurtbadenhausen/2011/06/06/the-nbas-endorsement-stars/",
"visible": true,
"authors": [
{
"$ref": "Author",
"$id": ObjectId("4d3a6695234f5dfdef87731e")
}
],
"blogId": "985",
"permalink": "http://blogs.forbes.com/kurtbadenhausen/2011/06/06/the-nbas-endorsement-stars/",
"timestamp": "Thu Jun 02 2011 23:05:37 GMT-0400 (EDT)",
"version": NumberLong( 1.30707e+12 ),
"specialSlot": "0",
"sitePage": "forbes.com/business/blogs/kurtbadenhausen/index.html",
"generatedId": "mli45ekkg",
"preview": false,
"promotedChannelSections": [
{
"channel": "channel_5",
"section": "",
"title": "Draconian Energy Regulation Will Never Die",
"description": "Many would like to believe energy regulation is comatose. It's immortal.",
"image": "http://blogs-images.forbes.com/thumbnails/blog_1419/pt_1419_16_o.jpg?t=1302814704",
"location": "top"
},
{
"channel": "channel_1",
"section": "section_2",
"title": "Draconian Energy Regulation Will Never Die",
"description": "Many would like to believe energy regulation is comatose. In fact, it's immortal.",
"image": "/images/channels/channel_1_section_2_panel2_0_twoacross-1302882013.jpg",
"location": "top"
}
],
"comments": [
{
"$ref": "Comment",
"$id": "blogAndPostId/blog/comment/1419-16-30"
}
],
"displayChannel": "business",
"displaySection": "kurtbadenhausenblog"
}

21. "authors": [
{
"$ref": "Author",
"$id": ObjectId("4d3a6695234f5dfdef87731e")
}
]

22. "comments": [
{
"$ref": "Comment",
"$id": "blogAndPostId/blog/comment/1419-16-30"
},
...
]

26. {
"_id" : ObjectId("4d3b3ad0bd206022d766690b"),
"className" : "com.forbes.forbesapi.model.PromotedContent",
"channel" : "channel_6",
"section" : "section_41",
"location" : "top",
"panel" : "threesm",
"contentPositions" : [
{
"position" : 1,
"content" : {
"$ref" : "Content",
"$id" : ObjectId("4de64e036417e476a1cdd00a")
}
},
...
],
"panelId" : "panel4"
}

27. "promotedChannelSections": [
{
"channel": "channel_5",
"section": "",
"title": "Draconian Energy Regulation...",
"description": "Many would like...",
"image": "http://blogs-images.forbes...",
"location": "top"
},
...
]

29. List Data
People
Places
Organizations

31. Other MongoDB uses at
Forbes
Stats
Scrumblr
Status Reports