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Control Your Data Colors in MongoDB Charts — The latest release of MongoDB Charts introduces a series of new options for controlling how you assign color to your charts. There’s a few visual examples in this blog post.

Version 1.7.1 of the Official MongoDB Go Driver Released — Includes a bug fix and minor documentation update.

ApostropheCMS on Picking the Right Database and CMS — In this case study of sorts, the CTO of ApostropheCMS shares how using MongoDB allowed them to push the performance of their product up and push the complexity of their code down.

Get Started with the MongoDB Realm Web SDK in 5 Minutes — How to send MongoDB queries directly from the web browser with the MongoDB Realm Web SDK.

Modifying Documents Using Aggregation Pipelines and Update Expressions — With MongoDB 4.2 and up, it’s possible to use an aggregation pipeline to update MongoDB documents conditionally, allowing the update/creation of a field based on another field. As such, here are some common/basic operations which are easily achieved with SQL databases.

▶  What's The Blast Radius When Your Database Goes Down? — A discussion with Mark Porter, CTO of MongoDB, about his history using and building some of the foundational databases of the last four decades. Touches upon his time at Oracle and AWS, then dives into the trends he’s focused on at MongoDB (such as time series capabilities and serverless instances).

MongoDB 5.0: Serverless, Live Resharding, Time Series Data — In case you missed it, MongoDB launched MongoDB 5.0 last month, introducing features such as live resharding, native time series, and a versioned API. Here’s the official blog post from MongoDB themselves.

Monstache: Sync MongoDB to Elasticsearch in Realtime — A sync daemon (written in Go) that continuously indexes MongoDB collections into Elasticsearch.

Mongoose Internals: Schemas, Schema Options, and Models — The undisputed expert of all things Mongoose (the MongoDB ODM for Node.js) is back with a new series of posts on how Mongoose works internally. It’s aimed at potential contributors, but any Mongoose user might get something from it.

Capturing Hacker News Mentions with Node and MongoDB — If you don’t want to read the ‘orange site’ (as it’s often called) but you’d like to know if something gets mentioned there, here’s one option.

▶  MongoDB Schema Design Best Practices — A ten-minute video covering the basics of data modeling using real-world examples. You will learn common methodologies and vocabulary you can use when designing your database schema on your application.

Developers Increasingly Pair MongoDB with PostgreSQL, Survey Finds — An interesting finding that comes out of a Studio3T survey of 18,000 developers. Redis is also a common pairing with MongoDB. And if Postgres is your thing, we have Postgres Weekly going out every week :-)

'Everything You Know About MongoDB is Wrong' — Both fairly and unfairly, MongoDB has been the target of numerous assertions over the years that they’re keen to correct and refine here.

Amazon DocumentDB Introduces Transactions and MongoDB 4.0 Compatibility — AWS shows no sign of slowing down with any of its developments and their controversial (in some quarters) MongoDB-compatible document store is catching up with MongoDB 4.0 in the area of ACID transactions and cluster level change streams.

MongoDB ObjectIds Now Start with 6 — This is pointless trivia, but ObjectIds are formed from Unix epoch timestamp values plus a random value and a incrementing counter. Due to the current time since 1970, ObjectIds now start with 6 rather than 5. You’ll need to wait till 2029 until the 7s begin. Generate some ObjectIds here!

5 Things Developers Should Know Before Deploying MongoDB — Covers a handful of things like authentication, sharding, why replication isn’t the same as having backups, and how schemas still matter.

Creating a REST API for Amazon DocumentDB with Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda — If you’re more on the AWS side of things and using the MongoDB-compatible-ish DocumentDB, this may be of interest if you want to use it to build a serverless REST API.

The Impact of Data Model on MongoDB Database Size — The author discovered that making various tweaks to his data model yielded various performance and database size improvements.

How MongoDB’s Drivers Team Makes It Easier for Developers to Innovate — Kaitlin Mahar, Lead Engineer at MongoDB, shares more about their Drivers team and how they support developers within the open source community.

Ingesting MongoDB Atlas Data using Amazon EventBridge — EventBridge is an AWS service that provides an event bus for tying together various SaaS apps and other AWS services.

Connecting Auth0 (the Authentication Platform) to MongoDB — How to configure MongoDB as an Auth0 custom database to simplify user migration or just add OAuth/Open ID Connect.

Using Polymorphic Data Validation with Nest.js and Mongoose — A hands-on guide to validate a document’s array filled with varying data models such as when working with MongoDB through Mongoose.

▶  Discussing Document Databases and Mongo with Joe Karlsson — An easily accessible podcast (in true Scott Hanselman style) about MongoDB and how document databases differ from classic table-based systems, with a MongoDB engineer as the guest. 32 minutes.

Introducing Multi-Cloud Clusters on MongoDB Atlas — Get the best of all clouds and deploy a single cluster across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud simultaneously with multi-cloud clusters on MongoDB Atlas.

Tips for Running MongoDB in Production Using Change Streams — Real-time tracking and auditing functionality has crept into a lot of databases that didn’t have it by default with ‘Change Streams’ being MongoDB’s approach for applications to access real-time data changes without endless polling.

MongoDB 4.4 Released — The latest version of the perennially popular document oriented database is here. It’s not as big a release as 4.0 or 4.2 were, but improvements have been made to aggregations and querying, connection monitoring and pooling, and new official drivers for Rust and Swift.

Oracle Introduces Autonomous JSON Database, Takes on MongoDB — A new cloud service built for developers looking for an easy to use JSON database with simple NoSQL APIs – intriguingly it boasts ‘all the core capabilities of MongoDB’ and there are some price comparisons to MongoDB Atlas so it’s clear who they’re going after ;-)

A Look at TTL Indexes in Mongo — When someone as smart as Brandur says a MongoDB feature is *“one of the most useful new database features in years”, I listen. TTL indexes provide a way to automatically prune old data. Redis and DynamoDB have similar concepts and I use TTLs on the latter to run engineeringblogs.xyz :-)

Using Postgres to Offload Real-Time Reporting and Analytics from MongoDB — Weighs up the advantages and disadvantages of moving read-heavy analytics off a primary MongoDB database to PostgreSQL.

How Wix is Able to Host 1 Million Sites Per MongoDB Cluster — When you need to store millions of databases with multiple collections efficiently, what do you do? This is exactly the question Wix faced when working on its Wix Data service.

mongomeili: Keep Your Mongoose Schemas Synced with MeiliSearch — MeiliSearch is a search focused system built in Rust (GitHub repo) and this will let you sync documents between Mongo and MeiliSearch so you can use Mongo as your canonical store and MeiliSearch for the end-user search aspects.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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.