The MongoDB Podcast

Harnessing the power of supercomputing and state of the art electronic structure methods, the Materials Project provides open web-based access to computed information on known and predicted materials as well as powerful analysis tools to inspire and design novel materials. In this episode we talk with Patrick Huck, High Energy Physicist turned Computer Systems Engineer and Developer. Patrick helps maintain the project and he joins Nic and I to explain how the project works, how it's used and how the project leverages MongoDB. Get more information at https://materialsproject.org

Mark Hosking, CEO of Formbird joins Michael and Nic to share details of his amazing low-code/no-code platform and how MongoDB plays a role in the stack and as a backing database for applications built with Formbird. Mark shares his experience as a developer, and now CEO and we learn about Formbird and about the go-to-market strategies as well as some deep technical details about how the Formbird platform enables developers, and business analysts to rapidly build powerful applications. 

https://www.formbird.com

MongoDB Connectors and Translators include tools like the BI Connector, and mongomirror. In this episode we talk with the engineers responsible for maintaining these and similar products.

The MongoDB BI Connector lets you use MongoDB as a data source for your BI and analytics (e.g. Tableau, Qlik and similar). Seamlessly creating the visualizations and dashboards that will help you extract the insights and hidden value in your MongoDB data.

mongomirror is a utility for migrating data from an existing MongoDB replica set to a MongoDB Atlas replica set.  It can also be used for performing a one-time migration of a dataset from one Atlas cluster into another Atlas cluster.

Tim Fogarty, Varsha Subrahmanyam, and Evgeni Dobranov stop by to help us understand how these products work.

https://mongodb.com/products/bi-connector

https://docs.atlas.mongodb.com/import/mongomirror/

Be sure to check out MongoDB Late Night - a fun, free event hosted by MongoDB. There will be live trivia, a home shopping network that will feature some amazing SWAG! https://bit.ly/mongodblatenight to RSVP!

Thursday, December 3rd | 5:00 pm ET - 9:00 pm ET

On this episode, we welcome Marissa Jasso, Product Marketing Manager at MongoDB to the show to tell us about the MongoDB Early Access Program (EAP).  EAP gives access to pre-release features to MongoDB Atlas users in order to get feedback to help shape and improve the products. In this first phase of the program, users accepted into the program will get access to Autopilot Mode for Creating Indexes. To learn more, visit https://mongodb.com/early-access

As developers, we rely so heavily on our tools and the code editor is where we spend a lot of time. In this episode we take a look at this landscape and focus in on a recent extension developed for VS Code. This extension was developed by Max Marcon and team and he joins Joe Karlsson, Nic and Mike to talk about how this was developed, and some of its capabilities. 

https://docs.mongodb.com/mongodb-vscode

This week in MongoDB, Tom Hollander, Principal Product Manager for MongoDB Charts joins us to tell us about some updates they've just released.

https://mongodb.com/products/charts

https://mongodb.libsyn.com/mongodb-charts-with-matt-fairbrass-and-tom-hollander

Learn how to determine what size cluster, and what server resources you'll need for your MongoDB Deployment from one of the best in the business, Jay Runkel. Jay is an Executive Solutions Architect and spends countless hours with customers helping them to understand how to choose the right infrastructure for their deployments. 

Jay's Presentation on Sizing: https://www.mongodb.com/presentations/sizing-mongodb-clusters

David Gorski is founder, and CEO of LifeMetrics. He's built an app called BestSelf designed to illuminate the impact of your daily activities on your well being. David shares details of his journey as a startup founder, how he came up with the idea for BestSelf and how he's leveraging MongoDB and Google Cloud.

More information on BestSelf: https://joinbestself.com

More information on MongoDB for Startups: https://www.mongodb.com/startups

Lead Product Manager rejoins Nic and I to continue the automation discussion and we focus on automated scalability. Automated scalability refers to the capacity of a system to automatically adjust resources to meet demand. MongoDB Atlas has this capability, built-in. Rez helps us understand exactly how this works, and how we might use it to enhance the cost structure and flexibility of our apps. 

Read More About Cluster Autoscale: https://docs.atlas.mongodb.com/cluster-autoscaling/

This week in MongoDB - MongoDB Developer Advocate Adrienne Tacke joins Michael Lynn to discuss the latest news and events from the world of MongoDB for the week of November 9th, 2020. 

1. MongoDB University's new Social Accomplishment Share - Share your course completions on social media, and LinkedIn. 

Log in to MongoDB University and navigate to your completed course page to view the new Share Your Proof of Completion feature.

2. MongoDB Atlas in Italy

We’re delighted to announce our first foray into Italy with the launch of MongoDB Atlas on the AWS Europe (Milan) region. MongoDB Atlas is now available in 20 AWS regions around the world, including 6 European regions.

3. MongoDB.live regional events and official pre-game events happening this week

This week: 

• Nov 10 Northern Europe (pre-game event: Dublin User Group, Nov 9th)
• • Main event: https://www.mongodb.com/live-northern-europe
  • Pre-game: https://live.mongodb.com/events/details/mongodb-dublin-presents-dublin-user-groups-mongodblive-2020-pre-game-event/ 
• Nov 11 A/NZ (pre-game event: Sydney User Group, Nov 10)
• • Main event: https://www.mongodb.com/live-anz 
  • Pre-game: https://live.mongodb.com/events/details/mongodb-sydney-presents-sydney-user-groups-mongodblive-2020-pre-game-event/ 

4. Coming this week on twitch.tv/mongodb

- Joe Karlsson and Max Marcon sit down with Nic and I for a discussion about the MongoDB VSCode extension. If you use MongoDB and VSCode, you'll want to make sure you catch this episode. We'll be going live at 12noon ET, 9:00AM Pacific at https://twitch.tv/mongodb

See https://dev.to/mongodb for additional updates.

https://twitch.tv/mongodb

https://twitter.com/mongodb