On the podcast today we have a fascinating interview from our time at Cloud Next ‘19! Mark and Jon went in-depth with Andrew Davidson about MongoDB to find out what they do and how they do it.

MongoDB is a document database that stores JSON natively, making it super easy for developers to work with data in a way that’s similar to how they think about building applications. The database is scalable, highly available by default with built-in replication, has an intuitive query language, and can be run anywhere.

MongoDB Atlas is a global database service that runs on Google Cloud; it automates deployment and provisioning, and ongoing operations such as maintenance, upgrades, and scaling with no downtime. Atlas is a declarative model to manage your databases easily, is easy to migrate to, and offers advanced features such as global clusters for low latency read and write access anywhere in the world.

In the future, Andrew sees a world where we think in terms of JSON-style documents instead of just tables. MongoDB can help make that happen.

Andrew Davidson

Andrew Davidson, a Silicon Valley native who lives in NYC, is the Director of Cloud Products at MongoDB with a focus on MongoDB Atlas, MongoDB’s global database as a service. He previously worked on scaling global mapping operations at Google, has a background in physics, and has lived extensively in South Asia.

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Interview

• MongoDB site
• MongoDB Atlas site
• JSON site
• Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) site
• Kubernetes site
• MongoDB Charts site
• MondgoDB Stitch site
• MongoDB University site
• MongoDB.local site
• MongoDB World site

Question of the week

How can I access Google Cloud Shell from any terminal?

• Introducing the ability to connect to Cloud Shell from any terminal blog
• gcloud alpha cloud-shell ssh site
• gcloud alpha cloud-shell scp site
• gcloud alpha cloud-shell get-mount-command site

Where can you find us next?

Jon and Mark will be at IO.