The MongoDB Podcast

MongoDB World Hackathon '22 Build your way to MongoDB World this year by competing in our hackathon. This year’s theme is “Data as news - A hackathon for information overload”.  On this episode, Shane McAllister joins us along with Mark Smith, and Adrienne Tacke from the MongoDB Developer Relations team to talk about the MongoDB World Hackathon '22 Visit https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022/age...

Happy World Backup Day!!! Consider Your Cloud Backup Strategy on World Backup Day, March 31 Iron Mountain processes millions of documents for many of the top Fortune 500 companies and globally across five major markets. They digitize and ingest these documents, process them to classify, enrich and extract metadata for our customers. In 2021, they digitized over 870 million pages of documents, whic...

While the crypto market never fails to attract masses of attention, it was Non-Fungible Tokens – or NFTs as we more commonly know them – that exploded into the mainstream in 2021. From a trading volume of around $100m in 2020, the arrival of celebrities, sportstars, and global brands – creating everything from collectibles and digital art to gaming and assets for the metaverse – drove NFT trading...

Data has always been an essential part of video games. From player profiles to telemetry, matchmaking to leaderboards, data is crucial to making games work – and making them better. Recent trends in gaming make data even more important. When you’re choosing a database for your next video game, consider your data requirements. Modern games are multiplayer and online, reach massive scale, and must e...

Developers everywhere have embraced document databases. But in many cases, it’s for the wrong reasons. Take the current hype around going schemaless — it’s almost too easy to store arbitrary JSON or XML in a document database. But if you expect to filter, modify and retrieve it efficiently, you may be setting yourself up for disappointment. On today's episode, we're talking with John Page, Disting...

Twilio was founded in 2008 by Jeff Lawson, Evan Cooke, and John Wolthuis. Millions of developers around the world have used Twilio to unlock the magic of communications to improve any human experience. Twilio has democratized communications channels like voice, text, chat, video, and email by virtualizing the world’s communications infrastructure through APIs that are simple enough for any develop...

Growth engineering, sometimes referred to as "growth hacking" is a technical, and systematic approach to growing the number of users of a given application or platform. Growth engineers are always coming up with new ideas and experiments to improve the users' experience. They do this by testing user behavior, and providing differing interfaces to select populations of users to see which one yields...

Deno is a “modern” runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that is built in Rust. This makes it very fast! If you are familiar with Node.js then you will be right at home with Deno. It is very similar but has some improvements over Node.js. In fact, the creator of Deno, Ryan Dahl, also created Node and Deno is meant to be the successor to Node.js. Jesse Hall joins Michael to talk about Deno and Mong...

With nearly 500 million gamers worldwide, the Esports industry market is approaching $200 billion USD. Today's gamers are engaging in fierce competition for cash and prizes and on today's episode, Michael chats with Ronald Chen, Principal Software Engineer at Battlefy , one of the most popular Esports Tournament companies.  Ronald has been working on the Battlefy platform since 2013 and talks abou...

When you think of the Holidays, I'll bet the first thing you think of is the MongoDB Atlas Data API... right? Ok, maybe not the first thing for you, but it was one of the first things my colleague John Page thought of. He's put together a very cool holiday project that exposes a string of lights via the MongoDB Atlas Data API and it enables you to interact and change the lights on his tree. To get...

As of 2019, over 50% of global enterprises use at least one public cloud platform for their everyday business operations. Since then, that number has nearly doubled with many analysts predicting a similar, if not greater, jump into 2022.  The continuing flood of businesses migrating infrastructures to the cloud has fueled explosive growth. IDC forecasts the combined public cloud Infrastructure and...

John Fahl is a freelance DevOps and Security Consultant. He's worked with numerous customers to help them transform, and adopt a DevOps mindset in their software development and deployment practices. On today's show Michael and John explore DevOps for a better definition, and talk about some of the tools, processes and benefits of implementing a more collaborative approach to the development, depl...

Swyx is Head of Developer Experience at Temporal.io. He's written a book entitled Learn in Public - The Coding Career Handbook. The book is a great resource for developers of all experience levels.  Buy the Book: https://learninpublic.org Use the Coupon Code MongoDB30 for a discount. Find Swyx on Twitter: https://twitter.com/swyx Read more about Temporal, the workflow engine for microservices: htt...

The MongoDB Data API lets you read and modify data in MongoDB Atlas over HTTP. You don't need any additional MongoDB drivers, libraries, or connection strings; just a standard HTTP client and a valid API key. The Data API's endpoints expose actions that are similar to the standard query methods available in MongoDB drivers. You can call them to create, read, update, delete, or aggregate documents...

With Black Friday upon us, let's take this opportunity to focus on solutions in the retail and E-Commerce space. Loan Laux is a freelance developer, and the founder of out:grow, an E-Commerce Agency specializing in helping retailers grow, and migrate to more efficient technology solutions. Loan shares the story of his journey as a developer, as a founder and why MongoDB is an essential and efficie...

MongoDB .Local is a great conference concept featuring uniquely hybrid offerings including education, keynotes and product updates, and entertainment curated for those joining live in person, live from home, or on-demand. The latest .Local was held on November 9th, 2021 at Evolution, London. In this episode, Karen Hualme joins the growing ranks of MongoDB Podcast guests and shares her experience a...

MongoDB .Local is a great conference concept featuring uniquely hybrid offerings including education, keynotes and product updates, and entertainment curated for those joining live in person, live from home, or on-demand. The latest .Local was held on November 9th, 2021 at Evolution, London. In this episode we chat with Richard Collins , CMO and DJ Walker-Morgan of 3T Software - makers of Studio3T...

Cademy is a hyper-local educator marketplace that enables content and course creators to more easily administer and market their courses. Reducing the time and effort spent on admin so they can focus on what truly matters - teaching and making your students happy!  Harry Swan is the CTO, and Co-founder of Cademy. He stopped by the podcast booth at MongoDB .Local London to share details of his jour...

MongoDB .Local is a great conference concept featuring uniquely hybrid offerings including education, keynotes and product updates, and entertainment curated for those joining live in person, live from home, or on-demand. The latest .Local was held on November 9th, 2021 at Evolution, London. In this, the first in a series episodes recorded live at the event, we chat with two industry veterans, Mat...

Next. JS is an open-source JavaScript framework built on top of React. It gives you some great convenience features and offers an opinionated approach to application development that can alleviate a lot of questions about how to accomplish common tasks. Ado Kukic from MongoDB's Developer Advocacy team joins Michael today to share his experience around Next. JS and to help us understand how it work...

Here we are in November of 2021. The pandemic continues to impact the way we’re all working, doing business and connecting with other people. One powerful way that technologists from all industries have connected is through attendance at conferences. I’m no different… I find attending a good tech conference to be a valuable part of my continuing education. From large scale conferences like the Con...

Shrey Batra is an engineer at LinkedIn. Shrey is a long-time member of the MongoDB Community and has spoken at MongoDB Conferences and led user group activities for quite some time.  Shrey joins Michael Lynn today to talk about writing scalable applications for Big Data. Shrey stresses the importance of data modeling, and shares techniques that he has leveraged to ensure that applications can not...

With MongoDB Atlas Online Archive you can automatically tier your data across fully managed databases and cloud object storage while preserving the ability to query all your data through a single endpoint. Create a rule to automatically archive infrequently accessed data from your MongoDB Atlas database to optimize cost and performance. On today's episode, we chat with Benjamin Flast , Sr. Product...

Serverless computing, pioneered by platforms such as  AWS Lambda , is a relatively new computing paradigm that developers are increasingly using as a tool for building applications in the cloud. Generally speaking, a solution is serverless if it can automatically and dynamically match compute and storage resources to workload demands. On today's show, Chris Shum , Sr. Product Manager for MongoDB S...

Shane McAllister returns to help guide a discussion on the Realm Mobile Database JavaScript SDK with our guest Kraen Hansen.   In this episode, we're talking with Kraen about Realm and JavaScript, its background, features and what's coming in the future. To join the conversation on the MongoDB Community Forums, visit: https://community.mongodb.com To get started with MongoDB Atlas, and MongoDB Rea...