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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.

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 :-)

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 ;-)

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.

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.

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.

▶  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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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).

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

▶  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’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.

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.

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.

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.

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.