The MongoDB Podcast

Brian Jones, Infrastructure Cloud Architect,  and Brian Poirier Sr. Infrastructure Engineer from Liberty Mutual Insurance join the show today to talk about their roles in shared services, about the stack of technologies they use and support and how they're working toward migration from a primarily on-premises server environment to one that incorporates a variety of cloud services including MongoDB Atlas.

Shane McCallister joins Nic and Michael to welcome Alexander Stigsen, and Ian Ward to the podcast to talk about the driving forces behind the development of the Realm Mobile Database. Alexander is the Co-Founder of Realm, the company acquired by MongoDB in 2019 and Ian Ward is Head of Product Management for the Realm Platform. We learn about the history of the products and discuss some of the changes that have taken place since the company was acquired. 

More information on Realm is available at https://www.mongodb.com/realm

Join us in the Community for discussions about Realm: https://community.mongodb.com

Jodan Stapinksi is a User Interface Engineer at MongoDB and he works on the team that builds and maintains the Developer Hub (https://developer.mongodb.com). In this episode, we discuss Jordan's journey from intern to his role today as a UI Engineer. Jordan helps us understand the technical details of how the Developer Hub was built and the tools, and services on which it depends.

Some Resources Mentioned:

https://developer.mongondb.com

https://www.gatsbyjs.com/

https://community.mongodb.com

Ansible is an open-source automation tool, used for configuration management, application deployment, orchestration, and provisioning. Martin Schurz, who works for T-Systems in Germany, has done extensive work with Ansible explains how he's built Ansible playbooks to automate aspects of deploying and managing MongoDB instances in MongoDB Atlas. 

Find more information at https://github.com/T-Systems-MMS/ansible-collection-mongodb-atlas

Sheeri Cabral joins us today to talk about O-FISH. Sheeri is the Product Manager for O-FISH, an application created by MongoDB for WildAid. WildAid is a non-profit focused on ending wildlife trafficking. O-FISH leverages native mobile device capabilities to replace pens and paper notebooks used by wildlife enforcement agents. Sheeri shares her experience in managing databases, open-source projects, and the O-FISH project.

More information on O-FISH is available at https://github.com/WildAid, and https://wildaid.org/tracking-illegal-fishing-theres-an-app-for-that/

In this episode, we take a look back at what we accomplished over the course of the year. We launched the MongoDB Podcast shortly after the start of the new year. We thought we'd take an episode and share some of the things we learned, and the tools we leveraged during the process of launching the show. Here's an abbreviated list of some of the tools. None of these tools have provided compensation or sponsorship. 

• https://libsyn.com - Podcast Hosting Service
• https://rev.com - Transcription Service
• https://zencastr.com - Web-based Recording Service
• https://www.audacityteam.org - Free, Open Source Audio Software
• https://www.reaper.fm - Digital Audio Production Software
• https://www.audio-technica.com/en-us/at2020 - Microphone
• https://www.shure.com/en-US/products/microphones/sm7b - Microphone
• https://www.cloudmicrophones.com/cloudlifter-cl-1 - Audio Pre-amp / Booster
• https://focusrite.com/en/usb-audio-interface/scarlett/scarlett-4i4 - XLR Interface and Pre-amp

Lauren Schaefer of the MongoDB Developer Relations team joins Michael and Nic to share details of her journey - becoming a developer, engineer and then transitioning into developer relations. Curious about how to get into Developer Advocacy and Relations? This episode is for you. Lauren can be found on social media at: https://twitter.com/Lauren_Schaefer, and https://www.tiktok.com/@lauren_schaefer

Performance is all about ensuring that software continues to exhibit consistent behavior across a variety of use cases and workloads. In this episode, we chat with David Daly, Staff Engineer in MongoDB's Performance Engineering team. David shares with us the details of his role and what he, and his team focus on to ensure consistency across the products in the MongoDB Platform.

MongoDB Engineering Blog: https://engineering.mongodb.com/

MongoDB Community: https://community.mongodb.com

David Daly:

- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GsETj4QAAAAJ&hl=en

- https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-daly-74b52b2/

The MongoDB.live Conference is happening July 13-14, 2021 and the Call for Speakers is Open! Get your talk ready. 

MongoDB.live is where the world’s fastest-growing data community comes to connect, explore, and learn. We have not yet determined a final date and will provide you with updates as they become available.

Topics 

Take a look at our topics and see where your talks idea might fit:

• How We Built It - Highlighting use cases, challenges, database migrations, and teams building amazing things with MongoDB.
• Working with Data - Schema design, transactions, aggregations, and everything related to working with data.
• Scaling - Strategies to scale your data, your performance, your clusters, and application best practices for scaling.
• Mobile & IoT Development - App architecture, data sync, and robust design patterns for the unique challenges and limitations of Mobile and IoT platforms.
• Web & Backend Development - Developing web apps, running backend services, using serverless resources, and connecting all of these to MongoDB.
• Security & Compliance - Database security, encryption, compliance, and how to ensure your data is using the best practices in security.
• Operations & Tools - MongoDB configuration, automation, analytics, tiered storage, operations strategies, and best practices for managing MongoDB deployments.
• Make It Matter - Topics like diversity & inclusion, accessible apps, mental health, and other non-technical subjects that are of interest to a technical audience.

Visit https://sessionize.com/mongodb-live-2021/ for more information and to submit your talk

Kaitlin Mahar is an engineer on the MongoDB Engineering team and is responsible for the MongoDB Swift and Rust drivers. On this episode, she discusses details of these drivers, as well as her journey from University to MongoDB through the Intern program and about her role as a Lead Engineer today.