The MongoDB Podcast

Twilio was founded in 2008 by Jeff Lawson, Evan Cooke, and John Wolthuis. Millions of developers around the world have used Twilio to unlock the magic of communications to improve any human experience. Twilio has democratized communications channels like voice, text, chat, video, and email by virtualizing the world’s communications infrastructure through APIs that are simple enough for any developer to use, yet robust enough to power the world’s most demanding applications. By making communications a part of every software developer’s toolkit, Twilio is enabling innovators across every industry — from emerging leaders to the world’s largest organizations — to reinvent how companies engage with their customers.   On this episode, we chat with Liz Moy, Developer Evangelist at Twilio to learn more about how Twilio simplifies adding communication to your applications and works well with MongoDB. Twilio and MongoDB Tutorials + Blog Posts https://www.twilio.com/blog/automatically-trigger-twilio-sms-mongodb-mongodb-functions https://dev.to/twilio/save-user-input-via-slackbot-with-twilio-autopilot-functions-and-mongodb-3i13 https://www.twilio.com/docs/voice/tutorials/automated-survey-node-express Contact Liz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizmoy/ https://twitter.com/Ecmoy

Growth engineering, sometimes referred to as "growth hacking" is a technical, and systematic approach to growing the number of users of a given application or platform. Growth engineers are always coming up with new ideas and experiments to improve the users' experience. They do this by testing user behavior, and providing differing interfaces to select populations of users to see which one yields the intended results. Today, we chat with the team responsible for growth at MongoDB. Jesse Krasnostein, and Akshay Sadarangani chat about the science of growth engineering, the tools they use as well as the background and skills they leverage as part of this fascinating specialization. To learn more about career opportunities like this one, visit https://www.mongodb.com/careers

Deno is a “modern” runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that is built in Rust. This makes it very fast! If you are familiar with Node.js then you will be right at home with Deno. It is very similar but has some improvements over Node.js. In fact, the creator of Deno, Ryan Dahl, also created Node and Deno is meant to be the successor to Node.js. Jesse Hall joins Michael to talk about Deno and MongoDB. Check out the article Jesse wrote which covers this topic in more detail.  Checkout Jesse's Video on the topic, on YouTube.

With nearly 500 million gamers worldwide, the Esports industry market is approaching $200 billion USD. Today's gamers are engaging in fierce competition for cash and prizes and on today's episode, Michael chats with Ronald Chen, Principal Software Engineer at Battlefy, one of the most popular Esports Tournament companies.  Ronald has been working on the Battlefy platform since 2013 and talks about the motivations for using MongoDB and why the document model works so well for modern applications. Ronald writes about his experience on the Battlefy Blog. You can read more at https://blog.battlefy.com Battlefy is hiring! https://apply.workable.com/battlefy/

When you think of the Holidays, I'll bet the first thing you think of is the MongoDB Atlas Data API... right? Ok, maybe not the first thing for you, but it was one of the first things my colleague John Page thought of. He's put together a very cool holiday project that exposes a string of lights via the MongoDB Atlas Data API and it enables you to interact and change the lights on his tree. To get more information about this amazing project, read his recent article on the MongoDB Developer Blog here at https://www.mongodb.com/developer/article/christmas_2021_mongodb_data_api/. You can link directly to the tree project here.  Thanks to John for building this great, inspirational project and thanks to all of you for listening throughout the year. 

As of 2019, over 50% of global enterprises use at least one public cloud platform for their everyday business operations. Since then, that number has nearly doubled with many analysts predicting a similar, if not greater, jump into 2022.  The continuing flood of businesses migrating infrastructures to the cloud has fueled explosive growth. IDC forecasts the combined public cloud Infrastructure and Platform workloads market will grow to a whopping $400 billion dollars by 2025.  For developers, engineers and those interested in technology, this presents a massive opportunity. Companies of all sizes continue to seek out cloud computing expertise, offering some of the highest salaries in the tech domain.  If you’re interested in software, technology, and data… you may be thinking that you need to learn to write code and build something in order to find employment in today’s fast-paced, tech-focused economy. However… think again. We’re going to look at a corner of the cloud, you may have overlooked. Mark Kirpichnikov is a Cloud Support Associate and today he, along with his manager, Jon Fanti help me dive into and learn more about the Cloud Support roles. for more information about career opportunities within Technical Services at MongoDB, Visit:  https://www.mongodb.com/careers/departments/customer-engineering Check out this article from Alex Bevilacqua on the Technical Services Engineer Role.

John Fahl is a freelance DevOps and Security Consultant. He's worked with numerous customers to help them transform, and adopt a DevOps mindset in their software development and deployment practices. On today's show Michael and John explore DevOps for a better definition, and talk about some of the tools, processes and benefits of implementing a more collaborative approach to the development, deployment and operations lifecycle.  John's Web Site: https://thedarkwriter.io John's Article on DevOps (Medium):  https://medium.com/@jvftuo/my-journey-to-devops-eb655684a814 John's Book - Miraden's Folly: Her Soul of Fire Book One: https://amzn.to/304AjYa John's Client (MagicBus): https://www.magicbus.io/ HashiCorp Terraform: https://www.terraform.io/ Dominic Wellington (LinkedIn) Roll For Enterprise Podcast

Swyx is Head of Developer Experience at Temporal.io. He's written a book entitled Learn in Public - The Coding Career Handbook. The book is a great resource for developers of all experience levels.  Buy the Book: https://learninpublic.org Use the Coupon Code MongoDB30 for a discount. Find Swyx on Twitter: https://twitter.com/swyx Read more about Temporal, the workflow engine for microservices: https://docs.temporal.io/docs/typescript/introduction/ Check out MongoDB University https://university.mongodb.com - Build your MongoDB skills and advance your career with courses and certification. Learn to build better, faster applications for free.

The MongoDB Data API lets you read and modify data in MongoDB Atlas over HTTP. You don't need any additional MongoDB drivers, libraries, or connection strings; just a standard HTTP client and a valid API key. The Data API's endpoints expose actions that are similar to the standard query methods available in MongoDB drivers. You can call them to create, read, update, delete, or aggregate documents in your cluster.  Sumedha Mehta is the Product Manager responsible for the Data API and she joins Michael for a brief introduction to the product, how it works as well as its benefits.  Be sure to check the links below for resources, examples and documentation to help get you started. Screencast Tutorial (Youtube):  https://youtu.be/aVRnDu_BYy8 Documentation: https://docs.atlas.mongodb.com/api/data-api/ Blog Article by John Page: https://www.mongodb.com/developer/quickstart/atlas_data_api_introduction/  

With Black Friday upon us, let's take this opportunity to focus on solutions in the retail and E-Commerce space. Loan Laux is a freelance developer, and the founder of out:grow, an E-Commerce Agency specializing in helping retailers grow, and migrate to more efficient technology solutions. Loan shares the story of his journey as a developer, as a founder and why MongoDB is an essential and efficient part of the modern E-Commerce technology stack.  To contact Loan, send him an email: llaux@trellis.co You will reach Loan on Twitter at https://twitter.com/loanlaux Be sure to stop by the MongoDB Booth at AWS re:Invent.