The MongoDB Podcast

Shane McAllister returns to help guide a discussion with our guest Nikola Irinchev, Lead Engineer at MongoDB working on the Realm Mobile Database. In this episode, we're talking with Nikola about Realm and .NET, Unity and Xamarin Forms. 

Enabling access control on a MongoDB deployment enforces authentication, requiring users to identify themselves. When accessing a MongoDB deployment that has access control enabled, users can only perform actions as determined by their roles. In this episode, we're joined by Matt Javaly, Curriculum Software Engineer at MongoDB University who talks to us about Authentication and Authorization and about a brand new course he created that shows developers how to secure MongoDB using access and auth. For more information about this course, visit MongoDB University.

Today, we are joined by Julia Oppenheim, Associate Product Manager at MongoDB. Julia chats with us and shares details of a set of features within MongoDB Atlas designed to help developers improve the design of their schemas to avoid common anti-patterns. 

Jeremy Mikola is a Sr. Software Engineer at MongoDB and works on the team that maintains the PHP Driver. In today's episode Jesse Hall and Michael Lynn sit down with Jeremy to learn about the PHP Driver, and some of the history of MongoDB and PHP.  

Tapani Otala is the VP of Engineering at Tidepool, an open source, not-for-profit company focused on liberating data from diabetes devices, supporting researchers, and providing great, free software to people with diabetes and their care teams. He joins us today to share details of the Tidepool solution, how it enables enhanced visibility into Diabetes data and enables people living with this disease to better manage their condition.  Visit https://tidepool.org for more information.   Did you know that MongoDB is helping developers to fight Covid-19? We're offering Atlas credits for developers working on projects battling the pandemic. For more than a year, the world has been living and struggling with COVID-19. Vaccines are now being rolled out in many countries, but the global situation is still critical. In fact, many regions are battling through the most severe phase of the pandemic. Throughout it all, technologists have been coming together to develop applications to help detect, understand, and stop the spread of COVID-19. We are incredibly grateful to everyone who is working hard to tackle the virus, and this program is our small way of helping out. If you are working on a project to help combat COVID-19, apply on our web site and give us a bit of detail. Qualified applications intended to help fight this COVID-19 battle will receive $300 of MongoDB Atlas credits.    

Paul Done joins us today to talk in depth about the MongoDB Aggregation Framework and a new book he's written on the subject. MongoDB helps developers unlock hidden value in data and Paul has great experience helping developers take this even further leveraging the MongoDB Aggregation framework.  This new, free book is available online and represents a refreshing approach to publishing valuable content that can help you get started, and continue your journey of understanding the power and flexibility of MongoDB.

Gaspard Petit of Square Enix joins us today to talk about his journey as a Software Architect and how his company leverages MongoDB to help scale one of the most popular gaming companies on the planet.  

With Thunkable, anyone can easily build beautiful apps, program powerful functionality with drag & drop blocks, and upload apps to the Google Play Store and Apple's App Store. In this episode, we're talking with Wei Li, and Jose Dominguez of Thunkable to learn about the platform and how they're leveraging MongoDB to help them manage millions of users and applications.  Learn more at https://thunkable.com

Beau Carnes, Teacher and Software Developer from freeCodeCamp.org joins Nic and Mike in a discussion of the MERN Stack and Beau's newest video covering how to get started with this framework and with MongoDB Realm. Jesse Hall (codeSTACKr), MongoDB's newest Developer Relations team member joins the conversation to add his amazing experience as a developer, and a Youtube creator.  Check out Beau's Newest Video on freeCodeCamp. MongoDB.live is the flagship conference for the data platform built by — and for — developers and data scientists. This two-day event provides a deep dive into the future of data, and features interactive workshops, explorations of the latest data trends and products, Ask Me Anything panels with the top minds in data, and more. Register today to experience MongoDB.live — from anywhere in the world.

Blerp is an audio search engine that helps users communicate online in a new, and interactive way. Their audio-sharing platform enables anyone to enhance a moment with sound through voice chats, live streams, and messaging! Currently they are focused on gaming where they are helping thousands of creators every day enhance their live content through sharing soundbites. Today, Aaron Hsu, CEO, joins us to talk about how he scaled Blerp from a college startup to a business supporting millions of users.  Find Aaron on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aaronshoo/?hl=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/akcshoo?lang=en Registration is open for MongoDB.live, MongoDB’s biggest annual user event.  Join us on July 13th and 14th for this free, virtual streaming event that will feature a solid lineup of cutting-edge keynotes, dozens of breakout sessions, live Ask Me Anything panels, “brain break” activities, and so much more!    Head to mongodb.com/live to register and to get updates on what is in store for July!