MongoDB Announces Its Support of Girls Who Code

Meghan Gill
June 1, 2015 | Updated: February 11, 2016
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Today we’re excited to announce our support of Girls Who Code. Girls Who Code is a national non-profit organization that works to educate, inspire, and equip high school girls with the skills and resources to pursue opportunities in technical fields.

How are we supporting Girls Who Code? For the next 90 days, when you download MongoDB, you’ll be given the option to have MongoDB donate $1 to Girls Who Code on your behalf.

Girls Who Code represents causes that we’re committed to at MongoDB: diversity in technology and the expansion of technical education to our youth. By supporting Girls Who Code, we’re helping to support not only future engineers, but future innovation.

Download MongoDB and pledge your support to Girls Who Code.
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About the Author - Meghan Gill

Meghan is Director of Community and Demand Generation at MongoDB. She was the 8th employee and first non-engineering hire at MongoDB, helping to build the developer community behind the fastest-growing big data ecosystem. In 2014 she was recognized by AlleyWatch as a Rising Star in Enterprise Technology.

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How Many Agents Do I Need (and Why)?

Edit, July 2016 : Since Monitoring Agent 5.0.0 , Monitoring Agents share hosts among themselves equally. Feel free to reach out via ticket or chat if you have any questions about this process. If you’re an MMS user, you may be familiar with the concept of the MMS Agents. MMS uses agents to get information into and out of your deployment without needing direct network access. All of our Agents operate by making HTTPS requests out to MMS and then performing MongoDB commands within your data center. This blog post is here to help you know how many of each agent you need and why. Automation Every server instance in your deployment needs an Automation Agent to use Automation. Only one Automation Agent is required per server instance, each one can manage multiple MongoDB instances. Running multiple Automation Agents per server is not supported and will not work. The Automation Agent is responsible for configuring, launching, and maintaining MongoDB processes. Monitoring Every MMS group has only one active Monitoring Agent. This Monitoring Agent must be able to reach every member of your MongoDB deployment in the MMS group. You can run more than one Monitoring Agent, but more than three is a bit excessive. The advantage of running multiple Monitoring Agents is only in terms of increasing availability in case one goes down – they do not allow for ways to get to hosts that are not normally accessible. Backup Backup Agents have similar characteristics to Monitoring Agents. There is only one active Backup Agent per MMS group, and more than one only provides high availability, not network access. Each Backup Agent must be able to connect to every process in your MMS deployment by the hostnames that MMS uses.

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Women Leaders at MongoDB: Lena Smart Discusses Clarity and Goal Setting

March is Women’s History Month. Our women leaders series highlights MongoDB women who are leading teams and empowering others to own their career development and build together. Lena Smart, Chief Information Security Officer, explains why words matter, shares her thoughts on leadership, and discusses MongoDB’s internal mentorship program “MentorHER”. Tell me a bit about your team. My team is responsible for all aspects of security of MongoDB’s global offices and employees. Within my organization I have Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) and InfoSec (security engineering, physical security, etc.) under me. We are dedicated to making every effort to protect customer data, including continually improving security processes and controls. On top of that, we are committed to delivering the highest levels of standards conformance and regulatory compliance as part of our ongoing mission to address the most demanding security and privacy requirements of our customers. My goal is to build the best security and GRC team in the world. What characteristics make a good leader? In my opinion, good leaders are decisive and leave little room for ambiguity. They are understanding and know that people are depending on them for their careers, dreams, and aspirations. They make their work matter every day, are focused on continuous learning, and do not “rest on their laurels.” What has your experience been like as a woman growing your career in leadership? My experience as a woman leader has depended on the environment. It was very difficult as a CIO and CISO in the power industry. Every day I felt like I was being undermined by my peers, who (because they were all “power industry engineers”) felt they were the experts in everything to do with security (they were not). It was exhausting. I finally left and joined a FinTech company. That was better, but I still felt I could find an environment where women were actively encouraged to lead. Hence my move to MongoDB. I could not be happier here and love working with all our teams. Tell us about the biggest lesson you’ve learned throughout your career. The biggest lesson I’ve learned is that words matter. As a leader, people can interpret your words in many ways. Be clear in your message. I have a mantra on our team: “one voice, one message”. I encourage my team members to have all the internal discussion they want, but we do not ever air our dirty laundry in public. We stand with “one voice, one message”. People in general like clarity, and we try hard to enforce that idea within my team by encouraging each person to own what they do. What’s your advice for building and developing a team? I believe cultivating a supportive and positive team culture stems from the top down. I really embrace and follow MongoDB’s company values . Build Together is the main value I follow because, to me, people are everything. You need the right people in the right places owning what they do. I am also a huge advocate for people taking the initiative and building upon their own careers. I make sure to set aside a budget for training and certification programs for my team. This allows them to enhance their knowledge and helps them grow and develop into even stronger security and GRC professionals. I also started the Security Champions Program at MongoDB almost four years ago, a volunteer-based program that allows anyone who has an interest in security to join monthly meetings to learn more. Can you tell us a bit about the MentorHER program at MongoDB? I am honored to be the Executive Sponsor for a very important internal program called MentorHER. MentorHER aims to create diverse teams, develop female leaders, drive organizational changes, and enhance MongoDB’s reputation as an employer of choice. I’ve had a couple of mentors who made a positive impact on my career. I cherished our time together and made sure to have a clear understanding of the mentoring program I signed up for. There were goals, regular meetings, and a lot of positivity generated by mentoring. I hope we can replicate that at MongoDB with our MentorHER program. We have a very strong team leading the program, and I feel very confident that we will meet our goals and embrace the different experiences and perspectives of the women around us. What is your advice to women looking to grow their careers as leaders? My advice to other women is this: be clear and honest in what you want from a leadership role. At the C-suite level you will be pulled in many directions. Control that, from the start, where possible. It’s important to be intellectually honest and have clear goals that will help your team grow and mature, and the business flourish. Join a team that builds together every day. View open career opportunities at MongoDB.

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