Mike Friedman is featured in a video interview discussing his experience with floating point numbers in Perl and how he uses MongoDB to store and manipulate these numbers. The post highlights the importance of connection pooling in MongoDB, which can improve performance by reducing the number of connections to the database. The company also discusses 9 trends for 2014 and beyond, including increased adoption of big data technologies. Additionally, a video interview with Dwight Merriman is featured on Founder Stories, where he talks about his experience as an entrepreneur and founder. A tutorial on building a cloud using FluentD and CloudStack is also provided, along with news that BitNami has launched a MongoDB stack.