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The MongoDB Podcast features guest interviews including developers, startups, and founders with MongoDB Principal Developer Advocate Michael Lynn. Learn about new and emerging technology, how to use the various MongoDB products and best practices, how organizations are using MongoDB, and what lead them to choose MongoDB over other databases.
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Apr 12, 2023 • 38min
Ep. 159 Gamifying Data: MongoDB at GDC - Powering a Custom Game with Real-Time Analytics
In this episode, we're taking you inside the Game Developers Conference, where our team showcased a custom-built game powered by MongoDB Atlas and MongoDB App Services. You'll hear firsthand experiences from the team who attended the conference, discussing the incredible passion and competitiveness they witnessed from gamers trying to top the leaderboard.We'll dive deep into how MongoDB's real-time analytics and visualizations brought data to life, allowing players to see their own gaming data in action. Plus, you'll get a glimpse into how MongoDB's tech stack made it all possible. Be sure to visit https://mdb.link/gaming for links, resources and more information about MongoDB at Game Developers Conference 2023

Apr 4, 2023 • 25min
Ep. 158 Empowering Change: How Rain City Housing is Using Technology to Address Homelessness and Substance Addiction
In this episode of the MongoDB Podcast, we talk to Sean Brophy and Mark Clancy from Rain City Housing, a non-profit organization committed to providing housing, shelter, and support services to individuals experiencing homelessness and substance addiction in Vancouver and the surrounding areas. They share how they are leveraging MongoDB to improve their operations and impact, including a data collection system for critical incidents that helps them better support their staff and clients. Join us for an inspiring conversation about the ways technology can be a powerful tool for social good, and how Rain City Housing is leading the way in using MongoDB to create positive change for those in need.

Mar 28, 2023 • 39min
Ep. 157 Accelerating Startup Growth with MongoDB for Startups
In this episode, Michael interviews Julian Busch, Growth Marketing Manager at MongoDB, to discuss the MongoDB for Startups program. Julian shares insights about the program's evolution, benefits, and goals for supporting startups around the world. Key takeaways from this episode include:MongoDB for Startups aims to help founders scale their businesses by providing access to MongoDB Atlas's developer data platform, credits for MongoDB Cloud products, free technical advisor sessions, and co-marketing opportunities.Technical advisor sessions connect founders with MongoDB experts who offer valuable guidance on optimizing their technology stack.The recent launch of MongoDB Ventures further strengthens the company's commitment to supporting startups through corporate venture capital.MongoDB for Startups is suitable for founders at various stages, from ideation to MVP and beyond.Tune in to learn more about the MongoDB for Startups program and how it can benefit your startup venture.Visit: https://mdb.link/startups-live for more information

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Mar 25, 2023 • 58min
Ep. 156 12 Patterns for Tuning MongoDB Performance and Scalability
This episode focuses on Performance & Scalability - Designing a high-performance and cost-efficient system requires deep knowledge of MongoDB technologies. As your business grows, so will the demands on your database. If you are wildly successful, you’ll need to scale your minimal-viable-product into a humongous-scalable-product. This scaling journey can have profound impacts on the growth and costs of your business. In this episode we meet 2 colleagues from MongoDB, Ger Hartnett, Lead, Engineering & Xiaochen Wu, Staff Product Manager who take us through an overview of 12 patterns and best practices to help diagnose and scale software applications.

Mar 14, 2023 • 52min
Ep. 155 From Zero to Hero with MrQ
In this episode, we explore the world of online gaming, or more specifically, online casinos with MrQ, a UK based leader in the online casino space. Since launching in 2018, MrQ has been redefining online casino gaming with one idea in mind: keeping it all fun for their players with an extensive gaming catalog of player favorites. We talk to Iulian Dafinoiu, MrQ’s CTO about their journey from inception, through to launch, the online casino space, how they adhere to their player charter and keep it fun, and of course, their use of MongoDB from the outset, initially on premise and then subsequently, their migration to Atlas, our multi-cloud database service.

Mar 7, 2023 • 25min
Ep. 154 Launching Your App to the Next Level with In-App Analytics and MongoDB
In this podcast episode, the host interviews Jay Runkel, Distinguished Solutions Architect at MongoDB, about application-driven analytics. Traditionally, analytics were done in batches by a special-purpose data warehousing analytical tool. However, with app-driven analytics, the application provides real-time visibility into what is happening right now. MongoDB is uniquely positioned in this arena due to its powerful query language and distributed architecture. MongoDB's distributed architecture allows users to dedicate certain nodes to analytics and other nodes to operational queries. MongoDB's Atlas platform also allows users to easily add dedicated analytical nodes, which can be configured separately from the nodes that handle operational queries. This is beneficial from a cost perspective because users can choose to allocate resources as needed for different types of queries. Visit https://mdb.link/rocket for more details about the livestream.

Feb 28, 2023 • 34min
Ep. 153 MongoDB University with Eoin Brazil
This episode is all about learning, or more specifically, learning on the new relaunched MongoDB University site. For those that have listening to the live podcast episodes from MongoDB .Local London back in November, you will recall how the revamped MongoDB University was one of the major Keynote announcements there. Today, to learn more about this, I’m joined by Eoin Brazil, who was formerly a Curriculum Engineer, and is now a staff engineer here at MongoDB and acts as a Technical Advisor for all MongoDB’s educational programmes. In this role, as we’ll hear, he was closely involved in the design & development of the new MongoDB University and he led the much of the new MongoDB Labs features. So let’s join Eoin, to hear all about it.

Feb 22, 2023 • 32min
Ep. 152 Data Tiering using Online Archive with Prem Krishna
Join us for an insightful episode of the MongoDB Podcast where we explore how to optimize cost and performance with data tiering using MongoDB Atlas Online Archive. Our guest, Prem Krishna, Product Manager at MongoDB, shares how developers and operations teams can take advantage of this powerful feature to save money, boost performance, and seamlessly manage their data. You'll learn practical tips and real-world examples of how MongoDB Atlas Online Archive can help you scale your applications with ease, so tune in and get ready to level up your data management game!

Feb 14, 2023 • 40min
Ep. 151 Streamlining Game Development with Beamable CTO Ali El Rhermoul: Insights and Strategies for Game Developers
The podcast features Michael Lynn as the host, with Ali El Rhermoul, CTO of Beamable, and Nic Raboy, the original host of the podcast. The discussion covers Beamable, which is a company that streamlines game development and deployment. Before the interview, the Michael also speaks with Megan Grant and Shane McAllister about recent content on the MongoDB Developer Center, upcoming MongoDB user group events, and new videos on MongoDB's YouTube channel. They also mention a new e-book focused on the MongoDB aggregation framework, which is available for free download.

Feb 10, 2023 • 39min
Ep. 150 MongoDB Live from .Local London with James Miles, Anand Sanghani & Pierre Petersson
On this episode, we speak with not 1, but 3 guests, all solutions architects with MongoDB. Solutions architects help our customers use MongoDB in the best way and our topics today run through the Principles of Data Modelling, our newly announced Relational Migrator Tool, and Client Side Field Level Encryption (CSFLE). Our first guest is James Milles. James talks to us about the Principles of data modelling, the considerations to take into account in defining your data model and he outlines how a data model can evolve over time and the reasons for why and how your data model may change and evolve. After James, we have Anand Sanghani. Anand talks to us about the newly announced MongoDB Relational Migrator (which Mark Porter, MongoDB’s CTO, also talked about in Episode 145) and how it makes it easier for people to work with data, particularly legacy relation technologies and also the challenges they face moving off a relational stack. Finally we have, Pierre Petersson who joins me to talk about Encryption, in particular, MongoDB’s Client Side Field Level Encryption in multi cloud environments. Pierre discusses how MongoDB’s approach helps manage encryption keys in a cloud agnostic way & we briefly dive into queryable encryption which was also announced at MongoDB .Local London.