The MongoDB Podcast

In this episode we’re talking about all things sizing - clusters, sharing, indexing and we’re joined by Jan Srniček of Global Logic.  We first came across Jan via his talk from MongoDB world, where he spoke about the journey he and his team took in understanding how to reduce usage & cost - all the while keeping performance and responsiveness high.  In this episode, Jan talks about h...

MongoDB Atlas has a new command-line interface and on today's episode of the podcast, Michael Lynn interviews Bianca Lisle, and Jakub Lazinski to learn about how this new interface works and what developers can accomplish using it. [1:21] Bianca Lisle Introduction [1:33] Jakub Lisinski Introduction [5:23] Jakub describes the Atlas CLI and functionality [6:58] What's the difference between the Atla...

MongoDB is pleased to announce the release of the new “Learn MongoDB'' course, created together with Codecademy. Hosted on the Codecademy platform , the course teaches students the basics of MongoDB and how to perform CRUD operations, query and analyze data, and create and use indexes. With interactive tutorials and quizzes throughout, developers in the “Learn MongoDB” course can educate themselve...

Luce Carter shares details of her journey to becoming a highly successful Conference Speaker, and Developer Advocate. You may find it surprising to learn that someone on the Autistic Spectrum and who was diagnosed with ADHD has managed to become so successful in this role. She attributes the kindness of friends in the tech community who introduced her to programming and specifically C#. Conversati...

Madhup Mishra of Hitachi Vantara speaks about his roles and responsibilities as the company's Head of Product Marketing for its data platform Lumada. MongoDB Principal Developer Advocate and host, Mike Lynn and Madhup talk about how Hitachi Vantara is utilizing MongoDB in their data management efforts, as well as what it takes of the team responsible for keeping that software updated internally. C...

In this conversation from the MongoDB World Series event, Steve Westgarth speaks with MongoDB Principal Developer Advocate and host, Mike Lynn about his role at Haleon and how the company is leveraging MongoDB products, including Atlas. Haleon's mission is to empower everyday health, and while the company operates with a startup mentality, it was formerly part of GSK, and is a divestiture from the...

LuminPDF was founded in 2014 as a better way for people to annotate and collaborate on PDF files. Today, 70 million people use Lumin to meet their administrative needs and bring their documents to life. On this episode, we chat with Max Ferguson, Founder & CEO of LuminPDF , to learn more about building LuminPDF as a student and his lessons about growth and startup experiences, as well as how L...

In this special episode, Developer Advocate intern Cedric Clyburn speaks with other interns at MongoDB about their experience and focus areas. Conversation highlights: [01:18] Natalie Chwalk, Campus Recruiting Program Manager [05:43] Rohan Chhaya, Developer intern [09:03] Sahi Muthyala, Atlas Growth Team intern [13:43] Paul Romo, Marketing intern

Our sixth conversation from the MongoDB World Series features Olivier Proulx from ChargeHub. Oli's goal as a Co-founder of ChargeHub is to create a roadmap of charging stations for electric vehicle drivers, and in doing so make it easier for people to adopt the technology. In today's conversation, MongoDB Principal Developer Advocate and host, Mike Lynn talks with Oli about the ins and outs of ele...

In our fifth conversation from MongoDB World 2022, MongoDB Principal Developer Advocate and host, Mike Lynn talks with Simcha Coleman of Inspirit about building a metaverse for learning. Inspirit aims to empower Magic School Bus-like education experiences, where participants are fully immersed in a three-dimensional landscape. Throughout the conversation the two discuss Inspirit's stack and how Mo...

In today's episode, a conversation from MongoDB World 2022 with David Sarabia, Founder and CEO of inRecovery. MongoDB Principal Developer Advocate and host, Mike Lynn sits down with David to discuss inRecovery as a platform for fighting addiction, and how the organization is working with hospitals and treatment centers. Along the way the two discuss their history with addiction and sobriety, how t...

MongoDB Principal Developer Advocate and host, Mike Lynn chats with Nick Gamble, Head of Evangelism at Unqork. Unqork is a no-code application platform that helps large enterprises build complex custom software faster, with higher quality, and lower costs than conventional approaches. This third interview that is part of a nine-part series from MongoDB World 2022, focuses on the benefits of u...

In this nine-part series from MongoDB World 2022, MongoDB Principal Developer Advocate and host, Mike Lynn chats with Founder of Qubitro, Beray Bentesen. Qubitro is a device data platform for modern applications, and it can connect device data from multiple IoT networks for data companies so they can focus on business without the worries of scaling infrastructure. In this conversation the two disc...

MongoDB Principal Developer Advocate and host, Mike Lynn chats with Founder and CTO of Ultrahuman, Vatsal Singhal at the MongoDB World event in NYC. Ultrahuman aims to deliver biofeedback that can inform users' health journeys by using a continuous glucose monitor. In today's conversation, the two will discuss how Ultrahuman uses MongoDB products within its database infrastructure, and the ways it...

Today on the show we're talking about streaming data and streaming applications with Apache Kafka. We're joined by Kris Jenkins, Developer Advocate from Confluent, and Rob Walters, Product Manager at MongoDB, who will discuss how you can leverage this technology to your benefit and use it in your applications. Kafka is traditionally used for building real time streaming data pipelines and real tim...

Chris Smith and Ivana Ivanovic of Retool drop by The MongoDB Podcast to discuss the State of Engineering Time report. How are developers spending their time, what tools are aiding them to be more productive and efficient, and why does it matter? All this and more in their conversation with host and MongoDB Principal Developer Advocate, Mike Lynn. Highlights of the conversation include: [1:51] Ivan...

MongoDB Developer Advocate and host of The MongoDB Podcast Michael Lynn discusses best practices for attending your first tech conference. He also talks to guests including Mark Porter, CTO of MongoDB about MongoDB World happening this coming June 7-9 in NYC. Speakers in order of appearance: [1:14] Mark Porter, Keynote - Developers Build the Future Agenda Link [8:20] Ian Massingham, How Developer...

At MongoDB, we're constantly searching for ways to ensure that the database is as efficient as possible. This means exploring all sorts of new technologies to stay on the forefront of the cutting edge. Dr. Sasha Fedorova works as a consultant in MongoDB Labs, focusing on and exploring ways that the database, specifically the storage engine can leverage new storage and memory technologies. On today...

Kunal Lanjewar, a senior software engineer, joins host Michael Lynn to discuss how thatgamecompany is making use of MongoDB to support the video game "Sky." Conversation highlights include: Kunal talks about his role as a senior software engineer at thatgamecompany Using MongoDB to store terabytes worth of customer gameplay data How Kunal became interested in game and software development The peop...

Matt Beecher and Matt Almeida from banking startup Neocova speak with The MongoDB Podcast host, and Developer Advocate, Michael Lynn. Neocova helps banks utilize their customer data through its data and data analytics solutions, and these help banks to utilize data in ways that offer customers better outcomes. Highlights from the conversation include: The difference between community and larger co...

Prisma is an open-source ORM for Node.js and TypeScript that helps developers build faster and make fewer errors. On this episode, host Mike Lynn sits down with Nikolas Burk and Matt Miller of the Prisma team to discuss the Prisma + MongoDB Launch Week. Nikolas is a Developer Advocate and Matt is a Product Manager at Prisma, and together they're here to outline what Prisma is now capable of with M...

Postman is an application used for API testing. It is an HTTP client that tests HTTP requests, utilizing a graphical user interface, through which we obtain different types of responses that need to be subsequently validated. In this episode of the MongoDB Podcast, Michael Lynn discusses Postman with Arlemi Turpault , Senior Developer Advocate at Postman.

It's not every day that you get to spend time with a database industry legend. Today is that day. Dr. Michael Cahill  is the VP Labs at  MongoDB . Prior to leading Labs, he co-founded, and co-architected WiredTiger , the company and the storage engine respectively. His work on multiversion concurrency control and serializable isolation snapshotting has won the SIGMOD Test of Ti...

In this episode of the podcast, we talk with Josh Aas, and Sarah Gran of the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) to learn about their mission to secure the Internet through projects like Let's Encrypt , the automated digital certificate authority, and Prossimo , which focuses on transforming risks around memory safety in popular open source projects.

Welcome to the show. My name is Michael Lynn and I'm a developer advocate at MongoDB . I've spent most of my career as a software engineer, working with software and data in various industries. And I'm so excited to sit down each week with folks that have done the same. These are engineers, developers, founders of companies, CTO, CEOs, anybody innovating with software and. And the goal of the podc...