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HSBC Moves From 65 Relational Databases Into One Global MongoDB Database — HSBC Bank, one of the world’s leading financial institutions, is simplifying its data model by running its applications on MongoDB.

Introducing the New MongoDB Shell — MongoDB has introduced the first beta of the new MongoDB Shell (mongosh), a shell designed to be extensible, to support all the new MongoDB platform features coming out, and embeddable, so it can be used in other tools such as VS Code.

Evergreen: A Distributed Continuous Integration System from MongoDB — Built by MongoDB to test MongoDB, but it’s written in Go and dynamically allocates hosts to run tasks in parallel across many machines.

Ask HN: Do You Still Use MongoDB? — This Hacker News discussion really took off. Of course, a lot of criticisms of MongoDB here but plenty of plus points too. Worth a skim.

Popular Heroku MongoDB Addon Being Shut Down — mLab, acquired by MongoDB Inc. last year, is shutting down its Heroku add-on on November 10, 2020. If you’re using MongoDB on Heroku, be sure to check this doesn’t affect you. Atlas is the future.

Three Lessons from Seven Years of Building a GUI for MongoDB — How do you build a tool for the whole team? Scratch, listen, then sweat the small stuff.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

▶  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.

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

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

▶  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.

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.

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?

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

▶  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.

▶  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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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.