June 2022 Summaries

The company MongoDB celebrates Juneteenth by providing employees with the day off to celebrate and reflect, while also recognizing its importance as a federal holiday in the United States. Employees shared their personal experiences of celebrating Juneteenth, including supporting Black-owned businesses, spending time with family, and educating themselves about the history and significance of the holiday. The company's commitment to building a culture of inclusion is evident in its recognition of the holiday and its employees' efforts to celebrate it.

MongoDB Atlas is expanding into the Middle East, specifically launching in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) region, bringing its cloud-based database service to 22 AWS regions worldwide. This expansion includes a launch on AWS in the UAE region, which has been designated as an AWS Recommended Region due to its three Availability Zones. As part of this expansion, MongoDB Atlas customers will be able to deploy clusters with automatic failover built-in, ensuring higher availability and low-latency performance for data stored within their own country. This move is particularly significant for organizations in the UAE, including those in government, financial services, and utilities, who will benefit from improved tools to serve local users and improve citizens' lives.

MACH Aligned for Retail: API-First approach is crucial for retailers to meet growing customer expectations and remain competitive. This approach promotes agility, innovation, and microservices architecture. APIs play a key role in deeply interconnected systems that need to interface with internal applications, third-party partners, and customers. An API-first approach enables developers to have access to specific functionalities of external applications or other microservices within the same application, promoting reusability. It also allows for easy integration of new services and automation into production when new requirements arise, making it easier to adapt to changing customer needs. The use of APIs is deeply interlinked with the concept of microservices, enabling a bridge for loosely coupled microservices to communicate with each other. An API-first approach offers additional benefits such as avoiding duplication of efforts, reducing risks and operating costs, enabling new opportunities, and achieving language flexibility. It provides more opportunities when it comes to integrating and refactoring client applications and microservices, allowing retailers to improve and scale their IT offering in a fraction of the time.

MongoDB aims to make the transition from college to a tech career easier through its internship program, which provides hands-on experience and mentorship opportunities. The company's summer internship program has grown to include over 150 interns worldwide, working in various roles, with mentorship as a cornerstone of the experience. Interns are paired with mentors on their team, a Campus Team mentor, and an optional Affinity Group mentor, participating in professional growth sessions and networking events. After graduating, software engineers have three options to return to MongoDB for full-time work: rotating through different teams, joining a department rotation, or returning directly to their intern team. Both Betsy Button, now a full-time software engineer at MongoDB, and Tristan Wedderburn, also a software engineer, attribute their successful career transitions to the valuable experience and support they received during their internships.

MongoDB and Clarity Business Solutions: Enabling Modernization for Public Sector Clients` is a partnership between `MongoDB` and `Clarity Business Solutions` that aims to support government agencies in modernizing their applications and infrastructure. The partnership addresses the challenges faced by government agencies, including security concerns, limited access to internet connectivity, and difficulties in obtaining top secret clearances. Through this collaboration, MongoDB and Clarity offer three joint solutions: application modernization, government support, and rapid start. These solutions provide a secure and efficient way for public sector clients to leverage cloud technologies and improve their overall performance. The partnership enhances MongoDB's ability to service clients requiring top secret clearances and demonstrates its commitment to supporting the needs of government agencies.

The telecommunications industry is undergoing a digital revolution, shifting from traditional service delivery models to customer-centric and diverse digital services. Telcos are embracing platform thinking, offering apps, streaming services, retail platforms, and peer-to-peer payment platforms, and leveraging 5G, IoT, and AI technologies for personalized and real-time user experiences. Pressure on aging networks and business support system infrastructures is increasing, prompting telcos to modernize their applications and evolve to microservices and APIs. MongoDB customers like TIM and Telefónica are using the MongoDB Atlas developer data platform to deliver a robust platform-focused experience, improving both customer and developer experiences. The shift from traditional communications services to digital services requires global telecommunications companies to rethink their monetization strategies, with digital services experiencing a significant five-fold increase in revenue growth between 2010 and 2020.

MongoDB World 2022 was a significant event for developers and MongoDB enthusiasts, showcasing innovative features such as Queryable Encryption, which enables secure data encryption and expressive queries on encrypted data. The event reinforced the importance of developer productivity and highlighted the impact of cloud migration on data movement. Public cloud security was also a major topic, with MongoDB emphasizing its secure by default approach to simplify access control for sensitive data. Additionally, attendees were eager to try MongoDB, with many discovering new tools and features to improve their development workflow. The event also underscored the importance of in-person interactions, highlighting that remote gatherings require different skills and intentionality. Overall, MongoDB World 2022 demonstrated the company's commitment to empowering developers and providing solutions for a rapidly changing digital landscape.

MongoDB has been named the Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year for Data Management, highlighting the successful collaboration between the two companies to help customers achieve transformation through data-driven insights. The partnership enables customers to run MongoDB Atlas, a fully managed database service, on Google Cloud, providing benefits such as cost/performance advantages, seamless security and scalability, and pay-as-you-go options. Customers are leveraging this combination to drive innovation in various industries, including fraud detection, business media publishing, and real-time payments, by tapping into services like BigQuery, Datastream, and Dataproc. The collaboration is also facilitating a multi-cloud experience for customers, allowing them to run applications across multiple clouds with ease. As a result of this partnership, MongoDB and Google Cloud are empowering businesses to transform and achieve their goals through data management.

"Pioneera, an Australian startup, has developed a software application called Indie that uses early warning indicators to help reduce workplace stress and prevent burnout in employees. The application assesses language, linguistic markers, and behaviors to identify signs of burnout and sends personalized notifications in real time to help individuals get the support they need. Pioneera's mission is to pioneer a new era of work and use technology to prevent mental health issues in the workplace. The company has partnered with expert psychologists to deliver evidence-based content and has scaled its user experience to build connection and trust with users. With MongoDB as its database, Pioneera focuses on delivering innovative technology that solves real-world problems for customers."

Pride is a month-long celebration to create visibility and promote acceptance of the LGBTQIA+ community, with its primary objective being to embolden individuals to live their lives authentically. The event has a ripple effect, promoting greater acceptance and creating a welcoming environment for those who feel marginalized or struggling to exist. For many, Pride is not just a celebration but also a reminder of where they came from, a living experience, and an opportunity to show love for humanity by embracing individuality and community. The future holds a continued fight for equality, with the aim of raising awareness about shared human similarities and securing rights for marginalized communities. At MongoDB, the company celebrates Pride all year round, promoting the power of differences and embracing individuality.

MongoDB is now officially compatible with AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux, two new operating systems that have emerged as alternatives to CentOS. These distributions offer one-to-one compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.x and promise to maintain compatibility with future RHEL versions. As a result, users can download and run the MongoDB RHEL binaries on these platforms without any issues. The compatibility has been thoroughly tested by MongoDB, ensuring seamless integration and functionality.

Building a modern app stack with Apollo GraphQL and MongoDB Atlas can help teams reduce complexity by integrating scattered microservices and REST APIs into a unified schema, enabling frontend developers to query only the required data while being agnostic to where it's sourced from. A supergraph is a unified API layer built with Apollo Federation, composed of smaller graphs called subgraphs that each have their own schema, allowing teams to evolve their subgraphs independently without breaking clients. MongoDB Atlas provides a flexible document model and a reliable data layer that can run anywhere, be deployed across multiple regions and cloud providers, and scale horizontally due to its distributed nature. This combination empowers teams to innovate faster than ever before by delivering new app experiences with legacy architectures, reducing complexity, and improving performance.

MongoDB World 2022 was a developer-focused event that brought together experts, partners, and customers for hands-on tutorials, demos, and talks on various MongoDB-related topics. Keynote speaker Ray Kurzweil delivered an optimistic talk on the future of AI and humanity, predicting significant advancements in computational power and human-AI connection. The event also featured Builder's Fest, a series of pods where attendees could learn from MongoDB experts and partners about integrating MongoDB with other services and applications. Additionally, MongoDB senior product manager Rob Walters gave a live demo on configuring the MongoDB Connector for Apache Kafka, while CTO Mark Porter shared insights on building resilient architectures and culture of rollbacks. Developer advocate Sabine Adams also gave a talk on providing data consistency using MongoDB Atlas CLI and Prisma.

The second day of MongoDB World 2022 featured over 80 breakout sessions, including talks on empowering women and underrepresented groups in the workplace, morality in the digital world, and the principles of data modeling. Steve Westgarth discussed the importance of developers taking personal responsibility for anticipating unintended consequences and raising awareness of these issues in their organizations. Tom Hollander presented the MongoDB Relational Migrator tool, which can help organizations experience a 3x to 5x increase in development velocity and up to 70% cost reductions by migrating away from relational models. Felipe Canedo shared Vodafone's transition to a Telco-as-a-Service provider using MongoDB, while Carlos Castro demonstrated deploying a serverless database on Atlas. The day also featured discussions with leading experts and partners, including a panel on closing the Developer Experience Gap.

MongoDB World is a developer-focused conference that returned to in-person after a three-year hiatus. The event featured a packed schedule of educational sessions, live tutorials, customer stories, and product announcements for over 2,700 attendees. Keynote speakers included MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria and Chief Product Officer Sahir Azam, who celebrated the company's rapid growth and highlighted several customers. A new vision for MongoDB Atlas was revealed, with a focus on a unified platform that makes developers' lives easier. The conference also featured hands-on tutorials, product demos, and sessions from industry experts, including MongoDB solution architect Tom Gleitsmann and principal Felix Reichenback. New products and features announced included the Data API, Queryable Encryption, and the Relational Migrator.

The Developer Data Platform: Highlights from MongoDB World 2022 Keynotes` highlights the vision of MongoDB for its developer data platform, a family of tools and services built around a common API to help developers reduce complexity, improve their experience, achieve operational excellence, and run deep analytics. The platform was inspired by the desire to empower developers to build and scale applications faster, thus transforming organizations and businesses. Ittycheria emphasizes that what holds developers back is their legacy, brittle, inflexible architecture and infrastructure, which can be overcome by using a developer data platform like MongoDB Atlas. Azam highlights three key ways Atlas enables developers: reducing complexity, providing a better developer experience, and supporting application analytics and operational excellence. With its serverless model, competitive pricing, and flexibility for development and deployment, Atlas aims to empower developers to build the applications of the future, making it a mission-critical foundation for organizations to succeed.

The MongoDB Innovation Awards celebrate groundbreaking use of data to build compelling applications and creativity in professionals expanding technology limits with MongoDB. This year, 15 winners were announced from diverse organizations across various industries, including Anheuser-Busch InBev, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, AT&T, Sogei, Auth0, Cisco Systems, Corva, Wells Fargo, Pioneera, Cue Health, Goldman Sachs, and Getir. The awards recognize projects that put customers first, support digital reviews, improve scalability, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, provide operational resilience, and showcase cutting-edge approaches to banking and healthcare applications. Notable winners include BEES for Customer-First and Innovator of the Year Award, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for Data for Good Award, AT&T for From Batch to Real-Time Award, Sogei for Front Line Heroes Award, Auth0 for Going Global Award, Cisco Systems for Huge Impact Award, Corva for Industry Transformation Award, Wells Fargo for Operational Resilience at Scale Award, Pioneera for Savvy Startup Award, Cue Health for Unbound Award, and Goldman Sachs for Cutting Edge Award.

MongoDB is introducing five new analytics features to help businesses modernize their analytics and automate decision-making. These features include Column Store indexes, which enhance analytical queries by allowing real-time analytics on live data; MongoDB Atlas Data Federation, which enables users to query multiple data sources at once; the relaunch of Atlas Data Lake as a cost-effective data store optimized for high-performance analytics on large volumes of data; an improved SQL interface that allows users to easily interact with Atlas data via BI tools or SQL drivers; and distinct tiering for analytics nodes, which enables users to provision only what they need without impacting the entire cluster. These features aim to automate decision-making and drastically decrease the time it takes to get application insights in front of users.

Now is a great time for software developers or architects to build new applications and features due to the numerous solutions available. However, this abundance of choices creates another challenge for developers to overcome before they can start building. To address this issue, MongoDB has introduced several tools to improve the developer experience and boost velocity. These include Atlas Data API, serverless instances, the Atlas CLI, time series data, facets in Atlas Search, verified solutions, change streams, and a modern data layer for modern applications. The goal is to provide developers with building blocks to create a whole workload from scratch on a single platform, reducing complexity and improving productivity.

MongoDB has introduced several new features, including Data Federation, Search, Device Sync with Flexible Sync, and Change Streams, aimed at reducing complexity in data management for developers. These features enable developers to build richer experiences by streamlining operations, simplifying data integration, and accelerating analytics. Atlas Data Federation allows users to write a single query to work with multiple sources, while Atlas Search provides rich search functionality directly into applications. MongoDB Atlas Device Sync helps address mobile app data challenges, including limited connectivity and sync conflicts, using Flexible Sync for faster and more seamless syncing. Change Streams enable developers to build event-driven applications that react to data changes in real-time.

MongoDB has introduced several new features at MongoDB World 2022 to improve security and operations. Queryable Encryption allows customers to run expressive queries on fully encrypted data, reducing the heavy lifting involved when working with encrypted data. Cluster-to-Cluster Sync enables real-time data synchronization between two MongoDB clusters in different environments, giving organizations full control over the synchronization process. The MongoDB Atlas Operator for Kubernetes seamlessly integrates MongoDB Atlas into Kubernetes deployments, controlling resources without leaving the control plane. Enhanced Online Archive features include Data expiration and scheduled archiving, allowing customers to automate data storage and deletion rules. Finally, Atlas Serverless abstracts server provisioning and management, eliminating cognitive load and paying only for used resources. These new features aim to improve operational excellence, security, consistency, and scale while alleviating repetitive tasks for developers and IT managers.

Announcing Atlas Data Federation and Atlas Data Lake Try MongoDB Atlas for Free Today` MongoDB has announced two new services, Atlas Data Federation and Atlas Data Federation is the renamed version of Atlas Data Lake. The new services are designed to provide flexible options for querying and transforming data across storage services, as well as a MongoDB-native analytic storage solution. With these tools, customers can query across multiple clusters, move data into self-managed cloud object storage for consumption by downstream services, query a workload-isolated inexpensive copy of cluster data, compare their cluster data across different points in time, and much more. The new Atlas Data Federation service is built on the existing query federation service with increased performance and efficiency, while the new Atlas Data Lake provides a high-performance analytic object storage solution to achieve all analytic goals within Atlas.

MongoDB users have been deploying clusters for critical workloads, with environments including globally distributed cloud clusters, on-premises clusters, and edge clusters. Keeping data in sync across these diverse environments is challenging due to the need for support for globally distributed hybrid data clusters, continuous synchronization, and resumability. Cluster-to-Cluster Sync is a new feature that solves this challenge by providing unidirectional data synchronization between two MongoDB clusters, allowing users to control the synchronization process and monitor progress in real-time. The feature is now available as part of MongoDB 6.0 and requires mongosync for data movement between clusters.

The new MongoDB Atlas Command-Line Interface (CLI) is now available, providing a streamlined experience for creating and managing Atlas databases in the cloud. The CLI gives users a unified control plane to manage and automate tasks around their cloud resources, improving developer productivity and optimizing CI/CD pipelines with MongoDB. New customers can get started quickly with just two terminal commands, while existing customers can explore additional features such as serverless instances, Atlas Search indexes, and online archive setup.

MongoDB Atlas is now available on the Vercel Integrations Marketplace, enabling users to add a fully managed database to their Vercel application in minutes. This integration complements Vercel's frontend development capabilities with MongoDB Atlas's multi-cloud database service, providing a frictionless getting started experience and seamless scale. With this combination, developers can build new web experiences quickly and easily, scaling without limits as their applications grow. The partnership also enables global data distribution and resiliency, making it easier to deliver first-class experiences worldwide.

MongoDB has announced a new Verified Solutions program that empowers developers to use third-party tools alongside MongoDB with confidence. This program provides vetted and approved tools, ensuring reliable performance in production environments. The inaugural offering is Mongoose, a popular tool for object-modeling for MongoDB and Node.js applications, which will be regularly recertified to prevent issues. With the Verified Solutions program, developers can focus on building best-in-class applications instead of spending time resolving issues with third-party technologies.

The MongoDB Atlas Data API is now generally available, offering a serverless, secure way for developers to access data from their MongoDB Atlas clusters over HTTPS. This fully managed API allows developers to think of their data in terms of an API, simplifying the process of integrating data into apps and services. The API has been widely adopted by customers for various use cases, including connecting to IoT environments and integrating with other cloud services. With its general availability, the Data API now supports new features such as configurable data permissioning and security, including authentication methods, role-based access control, IP Access List, and custom endpoints. Developers can easily get started with the Atlas Data API by choosing a cluster and generating an API key.

Queryable Encryption` is a new feature in MongoDB that allows customers to encrypt sensitive data from the client side, store it as fully randomized encrypted data on the database server side, and run expressive queries on the encrypted data. This feature provides rich querying capabilities on encrypted data, such as equality, range, prefix, suffix, substring, and more, making it a huge advantage for organizations that need to secure their data while running expressive queries. Queryable Encryption was designed by MongoDB's Advanced Cryptography Research Group and is available in preview release. It adds another layer of security for sensitive data throughout its lifecycle, strong technical controls for critical data privacy use cases, faster application development, and reduces institutional risk for customers migrating to the cloud.

MongoDB is enhancing its Atlas Online Archive feature with two new capabilities: data expiration and scheduled archiving, both of which aim to improve operational efficiency by allowing customers to set rules for when data should be archived or deleted from their Atlas cluster. The data expiration feature enables users to specify a time frame for data storage in the archive before it is automatically deleted, while the scheduled archiving feature allows customers to schedule the archiving process during off-peak times to prevent potential stability issues with their clusters. Both features are currently available in preview mode and will be generally available soon.

Flexible Sync Delivers Device Data to the Cloud in Real-Time` Flexible Sync is now available for general use, offering significant architectural enhancements to its predecessor, Atlas Device Sync. It enables real-time synchronization of only relevant data for users or devices, improving developer productivity and reducing complexity in managing separate data technologies. The new feature introduces query-based sync, allowing developers to define synced data using language-native queries that dynamically update based on user-defined inputs. Flexible Sync also offers field-level permissions for handling sensitive information and support for asymmetric sync with write-heavy workloads. Additionally, it provides support for Kotlin, Flutter, MAUI, and WatchOS frameworks, expanding developer productivity and flexibility. With Flexible Sync, developers can easily start building with Device Sync by signing up or logging in to their cloud account, deploying an App Services app, and selecting the desired sync type.

New Ways to Deliver Excellent Search Experiences With Atlas Search` announces several new features in MongoDB Atlas Search designed to help build relevance-based search directly into applications. These include facets on sharded collections, embedded documents in arrays, and cross-collection searches using `$lookup` and `$union`. Additionally, `Facets on Sharded Collections` now work on sharded collections, enabling larger workloads to scale. Faster aggregations with stored source fields also provide better performance for search queries. New metrics are available to help analyze the impact of search on database deployments, while a new role, Project Search Index Editor, allows users to configure Atlas Search indexes without accessing underlying data or performing other project-level changes.

The Atlas SQL Interface, Connectors, and Drivers allow users to query and analyze MongoDB data using their existing knowledge of SQL. This feature enables faster insights and consistent analysis on the freshest data by connecting MongoDB as a data source for SQL-based business intelligence tools. The Atlas SQL Connectors and Drivers provide seamless connections to various BI tools, including Tableau, PowerBI, and Looker, without compromising data integrity. Users can leverage the unique advantages of each product while using the Atlas SQL Interface, which leverages Atlas Data Federation for its query engine.

MongoDB has announced the release of its new tool called MongoDB Relational Migrator, designed to simplify the process of moving workloads from relational databases to MongoDB. The tool aims to address the challenges faced by customers who want to replatform their existing applications from relational databases to MongoDB for increased agility and scalability. With Relational Migrator, customers can easily design and map a new MongoDB schema, perform data migration, and even execute a one-shot or continuous sync migration with the assistance of MongoDB's Field Engineering teams. The tool is compatible with popular relational databases such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, significantly lowering the effort and risk involved in transforming and replicating data to support application modernization.

MongoDB has announced new time series capabilities coming in MongoDB 6.0, including support for secondary indexes on measurements, read performance improvements for sort operations, and densification and gap-filling features to handle missing data points. These enhancements aim to make it easier for developers to manage and analyze time series data with greater ease, speed, and lower cost than ever before. The new capabilities are part of a steady drumbeat of new time series features added since MongoDB 5.0, which have empowered developers to build best-in-class applications using time series data on MongoDB. With the release of MongoDB 6.0, customers will be able to create secondary or compound indexes on any field in a time series collection, enabling geo-indexing and improved read performance. The new features are designed to address common challenges associated with working with time series data, such as data volume and continuity, and will continue to empower developers to build innovative applications using time series data on MongoDB.

MongoDB's Partner of the Year Awards recognize companies that have worked closely with them to drive joint success in the past year. This year, 17 organizations were recognized for their contributions to MongoDB's ecosystem, including Accenture, Alibaba Cloud, AWS, BigID, Capgemini, Carahsoft, commercetools, Confluent, Exafluence, Google Cloud, HCL Technologies, IBM, PeerIslands, Tecnotree, Temenos, and Unqork. These partners have demonstrated their expertise in extending MongoDB's capabilities, building new solutions on top of the platform, or offering expertise to implement and modernize databases. The awards honor the companies that have made significant contributions to MongoDB's success with customers, and they will be honored at a partner VIP reception on June 6, 2022.

The Italian government has launched a new cloud computing platform called "Cloud Italiano" or "Polo Strategico Nazionale" (PSN), which aims to accelerate the digital transformation of the public administration and provide a secure, efficient, and continuous infrastructure for data management. The PSN is designed with the principles of multicloud, innovation, and security, and will offer a single system of identity digitale to citizens, improving their daily lives. MongoDB has been chosen as the NoSQL database solution due to its flexibility, ability to handle high data volumes, and ease of use, making it an essential service for the new cloud platform. The migration of critical services to the PSN involves over 280 administrations, including central government agencies, health organizations, and local authorities, with the goal of ensuring Italy's leadership in digital infrastructure and data management.

The MongoDB Atlas Operator for Kubernetes has reached general availability, making it easy to deploy, manage, and access MongoDB Atlas from a Kubernetes environment. The operator is designed to follow Kubernetes standards, is open source, and supports various Certified Kubernetes Distributions. It allows users to manage their Atlas resources directly from Kubernetes using the API, integrating easily with CI/CD pipelines and providing a single control plane for managing containerized applications and data layers. This aligns well with modern development practices that utilize containerization and Kubernetes, offering versatility, high availability, scalability, and portability.

The insurance industry is undergoing a digital transformation wave, with technology changing the way organizations operate and measure risk. Underwriting processes are being revolutionized by new technological advancements in IoT, Manufacturing, and Automotive space, enabling personalized underwriting paradigms and real-time data-driven decisions. Automation and Machine Learning algorithms can streamline new cases, reduce manual procedures, and help underwriters focus on high-value activities. Triaging times can be drastically reduced using AI/ML, and risk assessment processes can be made more effective by leveraging rule-based expert systems and ML algorithms to fine-tune underwriting rules and predict the risk of new cases and scenarios. By embracing digital transformation, insurers can gain a significant competitive advantage in the coming decade.

MongoDB World is an event that focuses on transformation, digital or otherwise, and aims to engage with issues of inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility. The IDEA Lounge is a space where attendees can learn from and socialize with professionals from historically marginalized communities, including LGBTQIA+, women in tech, and BIPOC communities. The lounge will feature talks, workshops, entertainment, and quiet spaces for decompression, and also provide accessibility accommodations to attendees. It will host sessions led by individuals who represent these communities, such as Rob Koch, a deaf principal data engineer, and panel discussions on topics like intersectionality and celebrating achievements in the workplace. The IDEA Lounge also includes social activities like trivia sessions, dueling pianos performances, and book clubs.