John Alfaro, Senior Associate, HWC Inc. Breakfast with MongoDB April 4, 2017 Developer of the OpenFEMA APIs and senior consultant to the FEMA Office of Chief Technology Officer will discuss how a philosophical change to “Free the data” became a change agent for database technologies and open source based tools.

1. OpenFEMA and MongoDB
Breakfast with MongoDB
April 4, 2017

2. Agenda
• Who am I
• What is OpenFEMA
• Why MongoDB
• How’s it working
• Questions

3. Who am I
• John Alfaro
• Developing software and solutions for 20+ years
• Senior Associate at HWC Inc.
• Technical Advisor to FEMA CTO 4+ year
• Developed OpenFEMA APIs

4. What is OpenFEMA
• Free the Data
• People First
• APIs
• Top Data Sets
• Popular?

5. Why MongoDB
• Flexible data models
• Resilience
• Scalability
• Tool Support
• Low administrative overhead
• Low cost

6. Change
• Biasing towards OSS
• API’s as connectors
• Open Standards

7. Coming Up
• Agile Development
• DevOps
• Micro services