July 2020 Summaries

Bingel, an online learning platform for primary education, was faced with a critical situation when Belgium went into lockdown on March 13th, 2020, and schools shut down, forcing teachers, students, and parents to rely on the platform. The company's Digital Lead, Koen Rousseau, realized that Bingel had become part of the nation's critical infrastructure after it crashed multiple times due to a surge in traffic from the lockdown. To resolve this issue, Sanoma Learning switched to MongoDB Atlas, an unconventional migration process that was facilitated by the MongoDB team, who provided a virtual war room with data flow experts and architects to create a plan within hours. With the help of Atlas, Bingel's performance improved significantly, reaching 12 million exercises completed daily, and enabling the company to continue its mission to reshape education using new technologies like AI, machine learning, and analytics.

Yulia Genkina, a Curriculum Engineer at MongoDB, is an advocate for mental health awareness and has personally experienced the challenges of living with depression. Growing up in Russia, where there is a serious stigma around mental health, Yulia learned to be supportive of others who struggle with mental health issues, but struggled to seek help herself due to fear of stigma and misconceptions about medication. She found support through her husband, therapist, and family and friends, and emphasizes the importance of open communication, empathy, and self-care in managing mental health. With the support of MongoDB, which provided her with flexible work arrangements and access to mental health resources, Yulia is passionate about breaking down stigmas surrounding mental health and encouraging others to speak openly about their experiences.

Forbes has migrated its platform to Google Cloud and MongoDB Atlas, resulting in a faster build time, accelerated release cycle, reduced total cost of ownership, and increased subscriptions from new newsletters. The cloud migration helped the company scale during the pandemic, reaching record traffic with over 120 million unique visitors in May. The development team was able to innovate and thrive even in difficult circumstances, thanks to the ease of adaptation provided by the cloud infrastructure. The company has a history of digital transformation, starting with its first website launch in 1996, and continues to adapt to remain an industry leader, with plans to leverage the new cloud infrastructure for improved personalization, loyalty, and managing first-party data.

This year’s Open House will be hosted virtually on July 28th, providing an opportunity for attendees to learn about MongoDB's products and teams, including databases, distributed systems, cloud computing, web development, security, and more. The event will feature demos, a New Grad Panel with inspiring engineers sharing their experiences at MongoDB, and a networking session with recruiters and other student attendees. Attendees can expect to get answers to questions they may have about joining MongoDB as an intern or learning about the company's products and culture. With limited spots available, interested students should apply in advance to secure a virtual ticket to the event.

Liberty Mutual, a large insurance company, relies on modern technology to provide fast and accurate insurance information and products to its customers and partners. The company adopted the cloud, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, and MongoDB Atlas to accelerate application delivery and improve development efficiency. With MongoDB Atlas, Liberty Mutual can now securely deploy and manage their MongoDB clusters through fully automated CI/CD pipelines and take advantage of features such as sharding, scalability, and regulatory compliance. The company's partnership with MongoDB has enabled them to achieve a multi-cloud strategy, select the platform needed for specific application requirements, and automate operations programmatically with code.