I’m very exited to announce the latest course I’ve written for DevelopMentor:

MongoDB for Python Developers

If you’re looking for MongoDB training for you or your team, please consider DevelopMentor. We also have my MongoDB for .NET developers course if you live in the .NET camp.

Here’s some more background on this course.

MongoDB for Python Developers

This course is a deep exploration of building applications in MongoDB (the most popular NoSQL document-database). There are many benefits to choosing a NoSQL database over traditional RDMBSs such as SQL Server or Oracle. This course starts out by looking at why you should choose a NoSQL database in the first place. We will explore the native query language and capabilities of MongoDB. Then we will start working with MongoDB from our Python applications and look at several topics that explore the advanced aspects of the MongoDB Python API including MongoDB from Python, PyMongo, ODMs such as MongoEngine, and more. We will see how to leverage the immense scalability of MongoDB using the aggregation framework, replica sets, and sharding. You will discover how to store and manage files of virtually unlimited size in MongoDB using GridFS. We will discuss how to properly design your entities and documents (both natively and in Python) to take full advantage of what MongoDB has to offer. Finally, we will round out the course with a few topics that you will need to be successful with MongoDB including Server administration for developers and Security and permissions.

Note that some of the topics cover in this course are technology agnostic (for example the native query lesson is equality applicable to Python developers as well as .NET or Java developers) and some are specifically optimized for Python developers (for example MongoEngine and ODMs).

Why should you choose DevelopMentor’s MongoDB course? At DevelopMentor we have experience building and running large scale MongoDB deployments including our online learning platform LearningLine and develop.com itself. The course authors work closely with the MongoDB team and are in the MongoDB Masters program. We have been teaching MongoDB in our Python courses and our Guerrilla .NET course for several years. In short, we know what we’re doing with MongoDB and Python and we’d love to share it with you.

Course outline

Day 1

• Why NoSQL and why MongoDB?
• The shell and ‘native’ commands
• MongoDB from Python

Day 2

• Real world MongoDB with MongoEngine
• Entity Design
• Indexing and profiling

Day 3

• GridFS – A file system within MongoDB
• Aggregation framework
• Server administration for developers

Day 4

• Replication
• Sharding
• Security and permissions

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