The MongoDB Podcast

In this episode, Mike Lynn talks with Jannik Wempe of Hashnode. Hashnode is a Blogging community for engineers, thought leaders and the wider developer community.Jannik discusses his career path to date, he ended up as a full stack software engineer and how writing developer focused content on HashNode actually led him to a role there. On his Hashnode blog, he most recently addressed the challenges of sending Mass Personalised Emails using AWS Serverless Technologies and MongoDB, and that's what brought Jannik to our attention.

In this episode, we're joined by Dr. Kalev Leetaru. Kalev is the founder of the GDELT Project, GDELT stands for Global Database of Events, Language & Tone and the GDELT Project monitors the world's broadcast, print, and web news from nearly every corner of every country in over 100 languages and identifies the people, locations, organizations, themes, sources, emotions, counts, quotes, images and events driving our global society every second of every day, creating a free open platform for computing on the entire world. In our conversation, Kalev helps us reimagine the way we understand and interact with our global world through data and how to make sense of it all.

In this episode, we're joined by Robert Blackburn of Blackburn labs. Robert talks to Mike Lynn about his journey to founding Blackburn labs and how Blackburn labs came to developing their Devless platform - a locode, nocode platform that came together on the back of the work they were doing for existing clients and a way to help those clients out. Robert chats with Mike about their solutions, their clients and their tech stack and his advice for anybody else looking to get into the software business.

In this episode, Shane McAllister talks with Snehal Bhatia, a Solutions Architect with MongoDB, about Designing Environmentally Sustainable Architectures and the extent to which the IT industry contributes to global emissions. We discuss on premise vs the cloud, how developers can optimise the architecture of a database so it can be designed with sustainability in mind through appropriate provisioning, data shaping, indexing, queries and sharding.

In this conversation with Mike Lynn, Arpit Mohan Appsmith CTO talks about his journey into engineering and programming, from dismantling home electronics, building soccer playing robots and ultimately about founding Appsmith. Appsmith is Open source, sharing the same roots as MongoDB, and can be used on prem or in the cloud. Arpit talks about why Appsmith went the open source route in the beginning, and the benefits that brings and talk us through their current implementation of Appsmith and their future roadmap. 

In this episode -  we turn our attention to Mobile Development and Shane talks to Mohit Sharma, a Developer Advocate at MongoDB.Shane chats with Mohit about mobile development, how he got started in mobile, his current role as a mobile developer advocate and we focus on KMM (Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile) and what that means for mobile development, and indeed desktop & web development and the benefits that using KMM brings to your development process and we discuss the new Realm Kotlin SDK that has been GA (Generally Available) to use since June of 2022.

In this episode -  Mike Lynn talks to Ben Speiser, CTO of Cambium, a software development house based in Israel working with clients both large & small, in many different areas, but particularly the retail e-commerce space. Cambium is a long term MongoDB customer and Ben & Mike discuss why Cambium chose MongoDB in the first place, and about their use of Atlas, Search and our other developer data platform products across multiple projects and clients. Ben illustrates the path of taking customers from on-premise servers and into the brave new world of “the cloud” and being their technology partner and how Cambium helps meet their clients needs. 

In this episode, Mike Lynn talks to Heather Lutz, Senior Software Engineer and Michael Myrland, Director of Technology Enablement from Datasite. Datasite is an online platform that empower dealmakers around the world with the tools they need to succeed across the entire M&A lifecycle and a MongoDB customer! In their conversation, we learn about the scale at which Datasite operates and what drew them to to MongoDB in the first place. We talk about how they manage scale, performance and we go in depth into details such as sharding and their plans around applying AI to the Datasite system. 

International Podcast Day™ is September 30th and is an international celebration of the power of podcasts! So this MongoDB Podcast episode is all about Podcasting itself! Very Meta! Mike and Shane are joined by Kris Jenkins, Developer Advocate at Confluent and Shawn "Swyx" Wang, Head of DX at Airbyte to use the opportunity of Podcast day to chat about all things Podcast related - how to get started, how to convince your organisation, how to get buy-in and what are the pros and cons of heading down the podcasting route. We spend time discussing the different approaches of the panelists, how they got started and how to engage and build an audience. We cover podcasting tech (and we live demo a glitch we had!) and equipment (Mike get's some plugs in!), and we try to examine the benefits and return on investment (qualitative and quantitive) that a Podcast will bring to your organisation. So, if you're starting out on your podcasting journey, or even just thinking of it, then we hope this conversation and the advice imparted will help you understand the value of podcasting in either building and maintaining a brand, or growing a community, or both!

In this episode, Mike Lynn chats to Abi from Google and Mira from MongoDB to talk about all things serverless and full stack application development in the cloud. They speak about the main reasons to use serverless and why you should use serverless technologies for your development. Topics covered include Docker, Containers, Jib (for building Java Docker images), environment variables, development vs production environments, how to connect to MongoDB, security, and when to consider developing for serverless (hint - when there's significant need for scaling, reducing maintenance and freeing up developers!!) Tune in to listen to what Abi and Mira have to share.