The MongoDB Podcast

In this podcast episode, the host interviews Jay Runkel, Distinguished Solutions Architect at MongoDB, about application-driven analytics. Traditionally, analytics were done in batches by a special-purpose data warehousing analytical tool. However, with app-driven analytics, the application provides real-time visibility into what is happening right now. MongoDB is uniquely positioned in this arena...

This episode is all about learning, or more specifically, learning on the new relaunched MongoDB University site. For those that have listening to the live podcast episodes from MongoDB .Local London back in November, you will recall how the revamped MongoDB University was one of the major Keynote announcements there. Today, to learn more about this, I’m joined by Eoin Brazil, who was formerly a C...

Join us for an insightful episode of the MongoDB Podcast where we explore how to optimize cost and performance with data tiering using MongoDB Atlas Online Archive. Our guest, Prem Krishna, Product Manager at MongoDB, shares how developers and operations teams can take advantage of this powerful feature to save money, boost performance, and seamlessly manage their data. You'll learn practical tips...

The podcast features Michael Lynn as the host, with Ali El Rhermoul, CTO of Beamable, and Nic Raboy, the original host of the podcast. The discussion covers Beamable, which is a company that streamlines game development and deployment. Before the interview, the Michael also speaks with Megan Grant and Shane McAllister about recent content on the MongoDB Developer Center, upcoming MongoDB user grou...

On this episode, we speak with not 1, but 3 guests, all solutions architects with MongoDB. Solutions architects help our customers use MongoDB in the best way and our topics today run through the Principles of Data Modelling, our newly announced Relational Migrator Tool, and Client Side Field Level Encryption (CSFLE). Our first guest is James Milles. James talks to us about the Principles of data...

In this episode, Michael Lynn sits down with Tachi, CEO of Playgrounds Analytics to discuss the impact of blockchain technology on business and analytics. Playgrounds is a data integration and solution provider that makes it easy for people to access and integrate blockchain data for their analytics needs through their user-friendly platform called Maestro. This episode discusses how Playgrounds i...

Another podcast (our 3rd) in our live recordings from MongoDB .Local London. This episode, we’ve not one, but two guests - Wojciech & Carlos. Wojciech talks about building a simple trading app - how they work, the algorithmic rules and how he uses both MongoDB TimeSeries and scheduled triggers and how it takes just under 10 minutes to get a basic app up and running. Carlos uses a personal exam...

The Mobile Makers series - In this week's episode, Matt Frances, joins us to talk about his pathway into development and how he built an iOS app both to learn and also to open doors into his development career. Matt used the Realm SDK to persist local data on device for his Bookshelf Book Tracker App. We also introduce the Developer Relations Weekly update.

At .local London back in November 2022, some key MongoDB personnel joined as guests on the podcast. This is the 2nd episode and here we've not one, but two guests - Ger Hartnett and Peter Fitch. With Ger, he talks about how customers scale and also goes briefly into the engineering behind building MongoDB before diving into patterns for tuning MongoDB performance and scalability, in which, due to...

On November 15th, MongoDB held one of it's .Local events in London and we took the chance of having so many key MongoDB personnel in one place to get them as guests on the MongoDB podcast! So, in this first .Local episode we air a live interview with none other than Mr. Mark Porter, CTO of MongoDB. Mark and Shane sit down to talk about what had been announced during his Keynote talk earlier that d...

Harness is The Modern Software Delivery Platform that uses AI to optimize software delivery. Harness leverages MongoDB Atlas as a part of their platform to optimize every stage of software delivery and cost optimization. Surya Bhagvat, and Dave Nielsen from Harness join Michael Lynn to talk about the key benefits of using Harness and how their leveraging MongoDB.

On this week’s episode, we dive into the area of gaming, and more particularly, beat matching and rhythm games and our guest is Dean Herbert, founder of osu! osu! is a hugely popular online rhythm game - it’s open source and uses the Realm .NET SDK. In this episode, we’ll learn more about osu's inception, why Dean built it, and how it’s grown hugely in the many years since Dean single-handedly bui...

Today on the show, Lena Smart, Chief Security Officer of MongoDB, and I team up to interview Dwight Merriman, co- founder and key contributor to MongoDB. Dwight Merriman is a true tech legend. In addition to co- founding and co- creating the MongoDB database and 10gen now called MongoDB, the company. He also co- founded and led several other well known successful companies including Business Insid...

Amit Ben, CEO and Co-founder at OneAI discusses his background in technology and his work in building products that understand human language, including chatbots and human language commands. He discusses his previous company, Nano Rep, which provided customer service and sales solutions using language AI, and his role leading global AI for LogMeIn's product portfolio. Amit then discussed the found...

In this conversation with Mike Lynn and Fernando Moitinho, principal product manager at OutSystems, a company that proposes a low-code solution to reduce the time to market in the development of our web and mobile applications.  As developers, we use technology to bring solutions to people, many of us writing code building applications, but OutSystems has another solution, one that may provid...

In this episode, Mike Lynn talks with Jannik Wempe of Hashnode. Hashnode is a Blogging community for engineers, thought leaders and the wider developer community. Jannik discusses his career path to date, he ended up as a full stack software engineer and how writing developer focused content on HashNode actually led him to a role there. On his Hashnode blog, he most recently addressed the challeng...

In this episode, we're joined by Dr. Kalev Leetaru. Kalev is the founder of the GDELT Project, GDELT stands for Global Database of Events, Language & Tone and the GDELT Project monitors the world's broadcast, print, and web news from nearly every corner of every country in over 100 languages and identifies the people, locations, organizations, themes, sources, emotions, counts, quotes, images...

In this episode, we're joined by Robert Blackburn of Blackburn labs. Robert talks to Mike Lynn about his journey to founding Blackburn labs and how Blackburn labs came to developing their Devless platform - a locode, nocode platform that came together on the back of the work they were doing for existing clients and a way to help those clients out. Robert chats with Mike about their solutions, thei...

In this episode, Shane McAllister talks with Snehal Bhatia, a Solutions Architect with MongoDB, about Designing Environmentally Sustainable Architectures and the extent to which the IT industry contributes to global emissions. We discuss on premise vs the cloud, how developers can optimise the architecture of a database so it can be designed with sustainability in mind through appropriate pro...

In this conversation with Mike Lynn, Arpit Mohan Appsmith CTO talks about his journey into engineering and programming, from dismantling home electronics, building soccer playing robots and ultimately about founding Appsmith.  Appsmith is Open source, sharing the same roots as MongoDB, and can be used on prem or in the cloud. Arpit talks about why Appsmith went the open source route in the be...

In this episode -  we turn our attention to Mobile Development and Shane talks to Mohit Sharma, a Developer Advocate at MongoDB. Shane chats with Mohit about mobile development, how he got started in mobile, his current role as a mobile developer advocate and we focus on KMM (Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile) and what that means for mobile development, and indeed desktop & web development and...

In this episode -  Mike Lynn talks to Ben Speiser, CTO of Cambium, a software development house based in Israel working with clients both large & small, in many different areas, but particularly the retail e-commerce space. Cambium is a long term MongoDB customer and Ben & Mike discuss why Cambium chose MongoDB in the first place, and about their use of Atlas, Search and our other dev...

In this episode, Mike Lynn talks to Heather Lutz, Senior Software Engineer and Michael Myrland, Director of Technology Enablement from Datasite. Datasite is an online platform that empower dealmakers around the world with the tools they need to succeed across the entire M&A lifecycle and a MongoDB customer! In their conversation, we learn about the scale at which Datasite operates and what dre...

International Podcast Day™ is September 30th and is an international celebration of the power of podcasts! So this MongoDB Podcast episode is all about Podcasting itself! Very Meta! Mike and Shane are joined by Kris Jenkins, Developer Advocate at Confluent and Shawn "Swyx" Wang, Head of DX at Airbyte to use the opportunity of Podcast day to chat about all things Podcast related - how to get s...

In this episode, Mike Lynn chats to Abi from Google and Mira from MongoDB to talk about all things serverless and full stack application development in the cloud. They speak about the main reasons to use serverless and why you should use serverless technologies for your development. Topics covered include Docker, Containers, Jib (for building Java Docker images), environment variables, development...