Tara Hernandez, the VP of Developer Productivity at MongoDB, joins the podcast to give an inside look at what the developer experience looks like at an organization that develops a database. Here, Tara shares what it looks like to develop, test, and release changes at MongoDB, while also providing insight into how the company invests in developer productivity more broadly.

Discussion points: 

• (0:57) What was going on at the time Tara joined 
• (4:37) Tara’s perspective on the buzz of platform engineering
• (7:38) What’s involved in building and testing a database
• (10:11) The development environment at MongoDB
• (13:14) How testing works
• (16:50) What the release process looks like
• (19:27) What goes into performance testing a release
• (21:31) MongoDB’s investment in engineering enablement 
• (22:39) Takeaways from working on databases
• (24:24) Affecting cultural change
• (26:40) Opportunities Tara’s team identified to change culture
• (29:12) Managing technical debt
• (33:06) MongoDB’s culture around developer experience 
• (34:59) Why Evergreen CI is open source

Mentions and links:
Follow Tara on LinkedIn or Twitter
Read more about MongoDB’s “Evergreen” Continuous Integration
Visit MongoDB’s engineering blog