Using Mongoose as a "backend" for your Node application seems like an elegant comprehensive way to go. Once your application increases in complexity and scale, this very choice can prove slow, complex, and unreliable in subtle ways.

This session explores key scenarios where using Mongoose the "right way" proves problematic, and how to fix them. You will gain deeper understanding of the underlying MongoDB commands that are invoked and how to take better control of your data layer. We will focus the discussion on concurrency issues, runtime efficiency, and complex query processing. Developers using Mongoose's populate, hooks, or interested in transactions, aggregation, or complex scenarios would benefit from this discussion.