Liberating your data in real-time with the MongoDB oplog

[taterbase]

/me runs and hides for suggesting a MongoDB talk

Seriously though, MongoDB is a great option for a datastore but not always the right tool for every job. I've been working on some tooling to take advantage of MongoDB's oplog to make it easy to keep any other datastore in sync instead of being forced to do large imports on an interval. It would be fun to explore what this flexibility can provide when we can store data in multiple use-case specific databases (elasticsearch, dat, etc...) but only worry about writing to one. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[mikeal]

i've actually always wondered if there was a decent way to do outbound replication from mongo.

[aychtang]

@taterbase Recommend also checking out Meteor's work on converting the oplog to DDP which covers similar use cases if you haven't already.