MongoDB User Group Rome — Stretching a Sharded Cluster with Kubernetes

A MongoDB User Group evening on running one sharded database across several sites. Cristian Monti, a software engineer, shows how location-aware policies in Kubernetes and MongoDB can place shards sensibly when distance, network latency and data-sovereignty rules all pull against you. It's the Rome chapter of MongoDB's community user groups, hosted at Sourcesense in Laurentino, the same offices that regularly host RomaJS, PyData Roma Capitale and GDG Roma Città. Arrival and networking from 18:30, the talk at 19:00, then aperitivo and networking from 20:00 until 21:30. Free, no approval step, registration on Luma. Why go: a hands-on infrastructure talk rather than a product pitch, on a problem Italian teams with data-residency rules actually face. Best for backend, platform and SRE engineers running MongoDB or Kubernetes across more than one region.