The document discusses the development of the Ox framework for MongoDB. It highlights that the project was mostly document-based, so MongoDB was a good fit. Ox was created because existing ORMs were designed for relational databases and schemas, whereas MongoDB is non-relational and schema-less. Ox encouraged flexibility and change by avoiding layers of code, normalization, and coding around the framework. The results were software better suited to the needs, high feature velocity, and reduced "programmer's regret" compared to relational approaches.

1. Ox for Mongo DB
Breaking the Relational Development Paradigm
Todd Edman, CEO – Lunar Logic
Michael Calabrese, Project Lead – Lunar Logic
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2. Why Mongo?
Not For Speed:
The app wasn't high-
volume and didn't have a
large data set.
Document Storage:
We had a project that was
mostly document based.
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3. Why Develop a
Framework?
Everything was Designed as a ORM:
• Zend, Cake, Yii, SQL – Heavy Schema
• Ox/MongoDB – No Schema
• Helpful for Code Organization
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4. What we Threw Away
We decided we didn't
need....
• An Object Layer
-BSON was good enough
• Joins, Complicated Views,
...framework fatigue.
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5. How It Set us Free
Encouraged Change, No Model Inertia
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6. How it set us Free:
What we Didn't Do:
• No Data Normalization
• No Layers of Code
• No coding around the framework
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8. Well Grouped Ideas
Lead to Simple Code
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9. 10 Collections
Not Dozens of Tables
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10. The Results:
In 7 months and 1,200 hours:
• Software Better Suited to the Need
• New Feature Velocity Still High
• Still Fun to Code
-Very little “Programmers Regret.”
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12. Thank You
Michael Calabrese, Project Lead – Lunar Logic
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13. Ox: The Beginning
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14. Keeping it Together
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15. Bringing it Together
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16. Validation
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17. Actions – Making it Fit
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18. Thank you
Thinking Flexible and Lightweight
• Flexible
• Lightweight
• For more information please check out
OxForMongo.org
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