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The MongoDB Charts Embedding SDK Is Ready — MongoDB Inc. has unveiled the Charts SDK for embedding your data visualizations into other sites.

MongoDB Makes Its Compass GUI Free — Compass provides a powerful interface to work with MongoDB databases. It’s source was made publicly available last year as well.

Shrinking BSON Documents — One issue with systems with dynamic schemas is that the names for things can take up more space than the actual values, as was seen in a tweet about DynamoDB. Does shrinking attribute names also help with MongoDB? Yes, but readability takes a bit of a hit!

Introducing MongoDB for VS Code — MongoDB has rolled out an official extension that makes it easy to work with MongoDB directly from Visual Studio Code. You can navigate data, play in a MongoDB playground, and get quick access to the MongoDB shell.

How to Optimize Performance of MongoDB — Tips and tricks to optimize performance, particularly around schema design, indexing, replication lag and query design.

AWS Glue Now Supports Reading & Writing to Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB Compatibility) — ...and MongoDB collections using Glue Spark ETL jobs.

▶  What's Important to Developers, Trends with Cloud Tech — A chat with Ken Alger, developer advocate at MongoDB, discussing how the role of the software developer has changed, what’s important to them, and emerging trends in cloud computing.

Webinar: MongoDB Schema Design Gotchas (April 23) — This upcoming ‘Ask the Experts’ webinar will share guidelines on how to structure your data, best practices on schema design, and more. This presentation will be followed by half an hour of live Q&A.

How MongoDB Enables Machine Learning — MongoDB enables machine learning capabilities such as: flexible data models, rich programming, data and query models, and a dynamic approach to schema that makes training and using ML algorithms much easier than with any traditional, relational databases.

Manage MongoDB Atlas Database Secrets in HashiCorp Vault — Automate secrets management for Atlas database users and programmatic API keys with two new secrets engines, available in HashiCorp Vault 1.4.

MongoDB Schema Design Patterns: The Polymorphic Pattern — This post looks at the polymorphic pattern (which is well suited when all documents in a collection are of a similar but not identical structure).

Using MongoDB as a Realtime Database with Change Streams — This look at how to use change streams (introduced back in MongoDB 3.6) to receive realtime notifications of database changes saw plenty of clicks.

Webinar: Scale Your Startup with MongoDB (April 21) — An educational webinar to get you up to speed on MongoDB - aimed at beginners.

▶  MongoDB: What's The Best Free GUI? — A quick comparison video running through the pros and cons of three free GUI tools, including MongoDB Compass, Robo 3T and NoSQL Booster.

MongoDB Helping Developers Tackle COVID-19 — MongoDB, Inc. is giving out free MongoDB Atlas (their database-as-a-service platform) credits for those detecting, understanding and stopping the spread of COVID-19.

MongoDB’s Field-level Encryption Protects Private Data – Even From DBAs — MongoDB 4.2 added field level encryption support when it was released late last year, and Ars Technica’s Jim Salter reflects on why this is so valuable in the bigger picture.

How to Restore a Specific Collection in MongoDB Using Logical Backup — Runs through how to use both the mongodump and mongorestore commands to restore a specific collection.

Hasta la Vista, DB: Eliot Horowitz to Leave MongoDB, Inc. — Eliot Horowitz was one of MongoDB’s original creators (back when the company was called 10gen) and perhaps the most recognized and prominent in the community, so the news that he’s stepping aside after 12 years is a surprise. Good luck for the future, Eliot!

▶  The Stack Overflow Podcast: A Chat with MongoDB's CTO, Eliot Horowitz — Well, this is a fitting way to celebrate Eliot's role with MongoDB over the years! A small group of four people wrote the code that kicked off what is now a massive business: MongoDB. And here, Eliot Horowitz tells the tale.

▶  The MongoDB Podcast Has Launched — Yep, more podcasts — this time it's a new show from MongoDB themselves. This promises discussions and interviews related to software development, databases and (of course) all things MongoDB. The first two episodes are available right now.

MongoDB Performance Best Practices: Sharding — Covers different sharding schemes and how they help you in scaling-out your database.

Connect to a MongoDB Database Using Node.js — In part one of this series, see how to connect to a MongoDB database by using Node. Did you know we also have a weekly newsletter covering all things Node?

Creating a RESTful Serverless API with Azure Functions and MongoDB — How you can use Azure Functions to create a Serverless API that uses MongoDB Altas as a backend.

Introducing a Single, Unified MongoDB Account — The age of having to remember different usernames and passwords for different MongoDB accounts is in the past. You can now have a unified MongoDB Account and even the option to log in and sign up with Google.

goxygen: Generate a Go and MongoDB-Backed React Project in Seconds — An opinionated full stack app generator that builds a skeleton backend that uses Go and MongoDB with React on the front end.

Performance Best Practices: Indexing — Best practices for delivering performance at scale with MongoDB, plus the importance of indexing, and tools to help you select the right indexes.

Using AWS Lambda to Create a MongoDB Connection Proxy — While AWS Aurora has the Data API for making queries over HTTP, MongoDB does not, but it’s possible to use AWS Lambda to rig up a similar mechanism with solid results. I suspect this could be replicated for other database systems too.

▶  Developing Applications with Golang and MongoDB — A look at how to develop apps with MongoDB and the Go programming language through basic CRUD operations, RESTful APIs, and GraphQL with MongoDB Realm

MongoDB Joins the GitHub Student Developer Pack — MongoDB has joined forces with the GitHub Education team and their Student Developer Pack. Learn more about how to get involved.

Tracking Coronavirus News with MongoDB Charts — Learn how you could put MongoDB Charts to use tracking the global Coronavirus outbreak. There are some good examples of the sort of output you can generate here.

Anonimongo: Another Nim MongoDB Driver — If you’re not familiar with Nim, it’s a small, statically typed language that compiles to C, C++ or JavaScript.

Product Management at MongoDB - Meet Rezwan Khan — The latest in a line of MongoDB Inc. employee interviews, this time looking at the experience of a MongoDB product manager, which is mostly about talking to customers and figuring out how to solve the problems they have.

▶  Hwo to Delete MongoDB Documents with Go — Learn how to delete MongoDB documents and drop collections using the DeleteOne, DeleteMany and Drop functions of the Go driver for MongoDB.

Filter Your Dashboards with MongoDB Charts — MongoDB Charts on Atlas supports dashboard-level filters, allowing you to quickly change the context of a single dashboard to better focus your analysis. Here’s a quick example.

▶  Modeling MongoDB Documents with Native Go Data Structures — How to use the MongoDB Go driver to add BSON annotations to your native Go data structures, providing a way to seamlessly interact with data in the app as well as the database.

Using MongoDB as Storage for Python OpenFaaS Functions — Learn how to connect MongoDB to your Python 3 functions when using OpenFaaS.

Finding the Moving Average From Heterogeneous Data Sources Using Apache Kafka, MongoDB and R — It’s a long title, but a solid tutorial about using the new MongoDB Connector for Apache Kafka to build data pipelines by way of a practical example.