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Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda

The developer experience of building a database | Tara Hernandez (MongoDB, Google)

May 2, 2023
39:36

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 

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