The MongoDB Podcast

Paul Done joins us today to talk in depth about the MongoDB Aggregation Framework and a new book he's written on the subject. MongoDB helps developers unlock hidden value in data and Paul has great experience helping developers take this even further leveraging the MongoDB Aggregation framework.  This new, free book is available online and represents a refreshing approach to publishing valuable co...

Gaspard Petit of Square Enix joins us today to talk about his journey as a Software Architect and how his company leverages MongoDB to help scale one of the most popular gaming companies on the planet.  

With Thunkable , anyone can easily build beautiful apps, program powerful functionality with drag & drop blocks, and upload apps to the Google Play Store and Apple's App Store . In this episode, we're talking with Wei Li, and Jose Dominguez of Thunkable to learn about the platform and how they're leveraging MongoDB to help them manage millions of users and applications.  Learn more at https://thun...

Beau Carnes, Teacher and Software Developer from freeCodeCamp.org joins Nic and Mike in a discussion of the MERN Stack and Beau's newest video covering how to get started with this framework and with MongoDB Realm. Jesse Hall (codeSTACKr), MongoDB's newest Developer Relations team member joins the conversation to add his amazing experience as a developer, and a Youtube creator.  Check out Beau's N...

Blerp is an audio search engine that helps users communicate online in a new, and interactive way. Their audio-sharing platform enables anyone to enhance a moment with sound through voice chats, live streams, and messaging! Currently they are focused on gaming where they are helping thousands of creators every day enhance their live content through sharing soundbites. Today, Aaron Hsu, CEO, joins...

Alexey Glazunov joins us to talk about how Funnelytics leveraged MongoDB to displace Postgres and prepared to scale their startup for the next phase of their journey.  Funnelytics  is a simple and aesthetically pleasing funnel mapping software that you can use to design, track and analyze your marketing funnels. ... Mikael Dia created  Funnelytics  after being frustrated that there wasn't a better...

Stephen O'Grady is a Co-Founder and Principal Analyst at Redmonk , the developer-focused industry analyst firm. Stephen is joined by Rachelle Palmer , Sr. Product Manager at MongoDB along with Michael and Nic to talk about Redmonk's latest Software Industry Language report. This report ranks language popularity using data from sites such as GitHub, and Stack Overflow.  Rachelle brings her extensiv...

Begüm Ortaoğlu and Aytuğ Turanlıoğlu join us to discuss their experience building Chember.co, and about their participation in the MongoDB Student Spotlight program. Chember is a community to instantly find pickup basketball games, get information on the courts, and create or join tournaments. https://chember.co https://www.linkedin.com/in/begumortaoglu/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/aytug-turanliog...

Chris Harris joins Mike and Nic to share what he's learned over the past 5+ years working as a Technical Support Engineer (TSE) at MongoDB and where he's earned the nickname "The Query Doctor". Join us in the Community to ask, and have your questions answered by folks just like Chris. Here are links to some of the topics Chris discusses: Query Targeting Performance Advisor Viewing Cluster Metrics...

Agero is powering the next generation of software-enabled driver safety services and technology, pushing the limits of big data to transform the entire driving experience. The majority of leading vehicle manufacturers and insurance providers use Agero’s solutions to strengthen their businesses and create stronger, lasting connections with their customers. Together, Agero is making driving smarter...

Yulia returns to the show to tell us about M001 - MongoDB University's course for beginners. You may remember Yulia from Episode 5 where she talked about Data Modeling.  In this episode you will learn about how M001 can teach you to set up your database and start exploring different ways to search, create, and analyze your data with MongoDB.  https://university.mongodb.com/courses/M001/about Check...

As our series on MongoDB Realm Mobile continues,  Shane McAllister returns to help Nic and Michael focus Realm Mobile for Android, Java and Kotlin in an interview with Christian Melchior, Lead Java/Kotlin Engineer on the Realm team. Christian shares a bit about his background transitioning from a Web Developer to the Mobile Space and talks about MongoDB Realm in the Android ecosystem. Christian me...

The Champions program rewards and recognizes our most active and enthusiastic community members at every stage of their MongoDB journey. From university students to veteran developers, Champions will have the opportunity to help drive the direction of our technologies while making meaningful contributions to the community.   In this first episode of the series, we're talking with Nuri Halperin of...

Mark Smith  is a Developer Advocate at MongoDB. He’s written a great article entitled “Everything You Know About MongoDB is Wrong” and in this episode, we chat with Mark to get to the truth and identify some of the misconceptions about MongoDB.  Myth 0: MongoDB is Web Scale Myth 1: MongoDB is on v3.2 Myth 2: MongoDB is a JSON Database Myth 3: MongoDB Doesn't Support Transactions Myth 4: MongoDB Do...

As our series on MongoDB Realm Mobile continues, Shane McAllister returns to help Nic and Michael focus Realm Mobile for iOS in an interview with Jason Flax , Lead Engineer on the Realm team. Jason shares a bit about his background as a mobile application developer before discussing how, and why so many developers are choosing Realm Mobile for their application developer stack. More information on...

Brian Jones,   Infrastructure Cloud Architect,  and Brian Poirier Sr. Infrastructure Engineer from Liberty Mutual Insurance join the show today to talk about their roles in shared services, about the stack of technologies they use and support and how they're working toward migration from a primarily on-premises server environment to one that incorporates a variety of cloud services including Mongo...

Shane McCallister joins Nic and Michael to welcome Alexander Stigsen, and Ian Ward to the podcast to talk about the driving forces behind the development of the Realm Mobile Database. Alexander is the Co-Founder of Realm, the company acquired by MongoDB in 2019 and Ian Ward is Head of Product Management for the Realm Platform. We learn about the history of the products and discuss some of the chan...

Jodan Stapinksi is a User Interface Engineer at MongoDB and he works on the team that builds and maintains the Developer Hub ( https://developer.mongodb.com ). In this episode, we discuss Jordan's journey from intern to his role today as a UI Engineer. Jordan helps us understand the technical details of how the Developer Hub was built and the tools, and services on which it depends. Some Resources...

Ansible is an open-source automation tool, used for configuration management, application deployment, orchestration, and provisioning. Martin Schurz, who works for T-Systems in Germany, has done extensive work with Ansible explains how he's built Ansible playbooks to automate aspects of deploying and managing MongoDB instances in MongoDB Atlas.  Find more information at https://github.com/T-System...

Sheeri Cabral joins us today to talk about O-FISH. Sheeri is the Product Manager for O-FISH, an application created by MongoDB for WildAid. WildAid is a non-profit focused on ending wildlife trafficking. O-FISH leverages native mobile device capabilities to replace pens and paper notebooks used by wildlife enforcement agents. Sheeri shares her experience in managing databases, open-source projects...

In this episode, we take a look back at what we accomplished over the course of the year. We launched the MongoDB Podcast shortly after the start of the new year. We thought we'd take an episode and share some of the things we learned, and the tools we leveraged during the process of launching the show. Here's an abbreviated list of some of the tools. None of these tools have provided compensation...

Lauren Schaefer of the MongoDB Developer Relations team joins Michael and Nic to share details of her journey - becoming a developer, engineer and then transitioning into developer relations. Curious about how to get into Developer Advocacy and Relations? This episode is for you. Lauren can be found on social media at: https://twitter.com/Lauren_Schaefer, and https://www.tiktok.com/@lauren_schaefe...

Performance is all about ensuring that software continues to exhibit consistent behavior across a variety of use cases and workloads. In this episode, we chat with David Daly, Staff Engineer in MongoDB's Performance Engineering team. David shares with us the details of his role and what he, and his team focus on to ensure consistency across the products in the MongoDB Platform. MongoDB Engineering...

The MongoDB.live Conference is happening July 13-14, 2021 and the Call for Speakers is Open! Get your talk ready.  MongoDB.live is where the world’s fastest-growing data community comes to connect, explore, and learn. We have not yet determined a final date and will provide you with updates as they become available. Topics   Take a look at our topics and see where your talks idea might fit: How We...

Kaitlin Mahar is an engineer on the MongoDB Engineering team and is responsible for the MongoDB Swift and Rust drivers. On this episode, she discusses details of these drivers, as well as her journey from University to MongoDB through the Intern program and about her role as a Lead Engineer today.