MUG Rome NOV 2026 - Stretching a Sharded Cluster with Kubernetes

Join us for a MongoDB User Group in Rome 🚀 Come connect with fellow developers, tech enthusiasts, and the curious-minded for an evening exploring the best practices and real-world use cases powering modern apps with MongoDB. Whether you're building your first project or scaling to millions of users, you'll walk away with practical insights, fresh ideas, and a great group of people to swap notes with. Grab a drink, meet the local MongoDB community, and see what's possible when you build with the right database. See you there! Agenda 📆 18:30: Arrival & Networking 19:00: [Talk] Stretching a Sharded Cluster with Kubernetes 20.00: Aperitif & Networking 21.30: Event Close Session Details 📝 Stretching a Sharded Cluster with Kubernetes By Cristian Monti, Software Engineer In multi-site architectures, distance, network latency, and data sovereignty rules all work against us. In this talk, we’ll explore how combining location-aware policies in Kubernetes and MongoDB can optimize sharding across a distributed environment. What you'll walk away with 🍃 Kubernetes insight MongoDB sharding insight MongoDB Swag