Ryan Bubinski (technical co-founder codeacademy with zach?)
- learn by doing approach
- needed a very flexible datastore
- was RDBMS guy prior to Mongo
- Mongo allowed quick/rapid prototyping models
- worries: joins on tables (collections in Mongo)
- Code Academy
- Ruby on server side
- Javascript some server and all client
- Mongo Document mapper (an ODM=object document mapper) called Mongoid
