The MongoDB Podcast

Harnessing the power of supercomputing and state of the art electronic structure methods, the Materials Project provides open web-based access to computed information on known and predicted materials as well as powerful analysis tools to inspire and design novel materials . In this episode we talk with Patrick Huck, High Energy Physicist turned Computer Systems Engineer and Developer. Patrick help...

Mark Hosking, CEO of Formbird joins Michael and Nic to share details of his amazing low-code/no-code platform and how MongoDB plays a role in the stack and as a backing database for applications built with Formbird. Mark shares his experience as a developer, and now CEO and we learn about Formbird and about the go-to-market strategies as well as some deep technical details about how the Formbird p...

MongoDB Connectors and Translators include tools like the BI Connector, and mongomirror. In this episode we talk with the engineers responsible for maintaining these and similar products. The MongoDB BI Connector lets you use MongoDB as a data source for your BI and analytics (e.g. Tableau, Qlik and similar). Seamlessly creating the visualizations and dashboards that will help you extract the insi...

On this episode, we welcome Marissa Jasso, Product Marketing Manager at MongoDB to the show to tell us about the MongoDB Early Access Program (EAP).  EAP gives access to pre-release features to MongoDB Atlas users in order to get feedback to help shape and improve the products. In this first phase of the program, users accepted into the program will get access to Autopilot Mode for Creating Indexe...

As developers, we rely so heavily on our tools and the code editor is where we spend a lot of time. In this episode we take a look at this landscape and focus in on a recent extension developed for VS Code. This extension was developed by Max Marcon and team and he joins Joe Karlsson, Nic and Mike to talk about how this was developed, and some of its capabilities.  https://docs.mongodb.com/mongodb...

This week in MongoDB, Tom Hollander, Principal Product Manager for MongoDB Charts joins us to tell us about some updates they've just released. https://mongodb.com/products/charts https://mongodb.libsyn.com/mongodb-charts-with-matt-fairbrass-and-tom-hollander  

Learn how to determine what size cluster, and what server resources you'll need for your MongoDB Deployment from one of the best in the business, Jay Runkel. Jay is an Executive Solutions Architect and spends countless hours with customers helping them to understand how to choose the right infrastructure for their deployments.  Jay's Presentation on Sizing: https://www.mongodb.com/presentations/si...

David Gorski is founder, and CEO of LifeMetrics. He's built an app called BestSelf designed to illuminate the impact of your daily activities on your well being. David shares details of his journey as a startup founder, how he came up with the idea for BestSelf and how he's leveraging MongoDB and Google Cloud. More information on BestSelf: https://joinbestself.com More information on MongoDB for S...

Lead Product Manager rejoins Nic and I to continue the automation discussion and we focus on automated scalability. Automated scalability refers to the capacity of a system to automatically adjust resources to meet demand. MongoDB Atlas has this capability, built-in. Rez helps us understand exactly how this works, and how we might use it to enhance the cost structure and flexibility of our apps. ...

This week in MongoDB - MongoDB Developer Advocate Adrienne Tacke joins Michael Lynn to discuss the latest news and events from the world of MongoDB for the week of November 9th, 2020.  1. MongoDB University's new Social Accomplishment Share - Share your course completions on social media, and LinkedIn.  Log in to MongoDB University and navigate to your completed course page to view the new Share Y...

Multi-cloud clusters - a feature available in MongoDB Atlas, a global cloud database service - takes the concept a step further by enabling a single application to use multiple clouds. With multi-cloud clusters, data is distributed across different public clouds (Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure), enabling deployment of a single database across multiple provi...

This week in MongoDB - MongoDB Developer Advocate Adrienne Tacke joins Michael Lynn to discuss the latest news and events from the world of MongoDB for the week of November 2, 2020.  1. Hacktoberfest Update: 233 PRs created, all merged! Many first-time contributors who were afraid to participate finally did by contributing to the Wild Aid app! https://charts.mongodb.com/charts-sheeri-jymux/public/...

In this episode we chat with Tosin Ajayi, Solutions Architect Manager at MongoDB to learn about the journey from Developer to Solutions Architect. Tosin shares details of this fascinating role. If you're a Developer considering other roles, this episode is for you. 

This week in MongoDB - MongoDB Developer Advocate Adrienne Tacke joins Michael Lynn to discuss the latest news and events from the world of MongoDB for the week of October 26th, 2020.  See https://dev.to/mongodb for additional updates. https://twitch.tv/mongodb https://twitter.com/mongodb  

This week we discuss database automation with Lead Product Manager Rez Kahn. This is the first of a multi-part series on database automation and in this episode, Rez talks about the importance of indexes and index management as well as how MongoDB Atlas provides automation to ensure that your applications continue to perform efficiently.  MongoDB Docs: Performance Advisor https://docs.atlas.mongod...

Val Karpov is the maintainer of the Mongoose ODM. Mongoose provides a straight-forward, schema-based solution to model your application data with MongoDB. It includes built-in type casting, validation, query building, business logic hooks and more, out of the box. Val shares his experience as the maintainer and provides some of the reasons developers use Mongoose.  More information is available at...

Managing the corporate credit cards of your business can be complicated, but it doesn't have to be. Learn how Vendrix leverages MongoDB as the safe and secure data layer for their credit card management system. This episode of the podcast features David Stewart, Co-Founder of Vendrix. To learn more about Vendrix, check them out at https://www.vendrix.co/

Need to visualize the data you have in MongoDB, but don't want to go through the hassle of developing an application with complex data parsing or frontend logic? Learn about MongoDB Charts from Matt Fairbrass and Tom Hollander on the Charts team at MongoDB and how you can easily visualize your data without the development know-how. To learn more about MongoDB Charts, check out https://www.mongodb....

Our first episode with new CTO Mark Porter, who joined in July 2020. Our conversation with Mark includes learning why Mark joined MongoDB, his past experiences and time at NASA, Oracle, and Amazon, career advice and work-life balance, and more.

Learn how Thena uses MongoDB to capture notes and other action items in meetings, allowing users to focus on the meeting itself. This episode features Kieran Peppiatt, Founder and CEO of Thena. To learn more about Thena, check it out at https://www.thena.app/

Learn how to simplify your application development with MongoDB Realm. In this episode we're joined by Shane McAllister from MongoDB and we're talking about Realm. If you've been keeping up with the podcast you'll remember a MongoDB Stitch episode which covered some of the technology and services that Realm offers. This particular episode is centered around mobile development with Realm and why it...

We dive into low-code and no-code application development with AppFarm co-founders Marius Tuft Mathisen and Ole Borgersen. Learn how they're using MongoDB Atlas on GCP to build and scale their rapid application development platform.

We're excited to be joined by a prolific community member, Alain Mbuku. Learn about Alain’s experience being a part of the MongoDB community and how he came to build ybits.io We discuss Alain's journey as a developer, why he uses MongoDB, and the features of Ybits.

In today's episode, we explore the journey someone who is not a full-time developer takes when they approach a problem equipped with the MongoDB platform as a solution. We're joined by Dominic Wellington, Director of Market Intelligence. 

We’re talking to Andrew Kerpulani from Workhound, which allows businesses with workers a tool to get feedback right from their workers directly in the field.