Submit Your Nominations for the 2023 MongoDB Innovation Awards

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March 20, 2023
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Nominations are now open for the 2023 MongoDB Innovation Awards.

These awards aim to celebrate and recognize organizations that dream big and are pioneering new ways to use data, expanding the limits of technology, and enhancing their businesses with MongoDB. We invite you to nominate an organization that is building something dynamic, interesting, or innovative with MongoDB.


Past recipients include 7-Eleven, American Airlines, Barclays, Bosch, Comcast, Epic Games, IBM, LinkedIn, Pioneera, and Sogei. Read more about last year’s winners here.

This year, we’re excited to offer a robust prize package. Our 2023 winners will receive*:

  • An Innovation Award trophy

  • 10 passes (per organization) to a MongoDB.local event of your choosing

  • Inclusion in the MongoDB Innovation Awards announcement materials and social media

  • Digital badge to display all year long

  • A customer feature story on MongoDB.com

  • MongoDB Atlas credits

  • A tailored MongoDB Day, designed to enable your technical team members to deliver solutions better and faster

Submissions will be accepted through April 21, 2023 and winners will be notified by the MongoDB team by the end of May 2023. Read more about each of the award categories below.

Award categories

Optimizing for Impact

This will be awarded to an organization that realized tremendous business benefits by leveraging MongoDB, with an impact on its bottom line (time savings, cost savings, and/or reduction in operational complexity).

Industry Transformation

This will be awarded to a change-maker who moved their business to the next level and disrupted their industry by identifying new technologies, applying new skills, or increasing operational efficiency.

Inspiring Innovation

This will be awarded to an organization that is using MongoDB to make a better world possible. They are creatively expanding the limits of technology to solve societal, community, medical, or educational challenges.

Building the Next Big Thing

This will be awarded to a small- or medium- sized business that has been building its core offering/service on MongoDB Atlas from the beginning. They are leveraging MongoDB's data developer platform to build and scale some of the world's most innovative projects in data.

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We look forward to receiving your nominations!

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Visualizing Your MongoDB Atlas Data with Atlas Charts

MongoDB Atlas is the leading multi-cloud developer data platform. We see some of the world’s largest companies in manufacturing , healthcare , telecommunications , and financial services all build their businesses with Atlas at their foundation. Every company comes to MongoDB with a need to safely store operational data. But all companies also have a need to analyze data to gain insights into their business and data visualization is core to establishing that real-time business visibility. Data visualization enables the insights required to take action, whether that’s on key sales data, production and operations data, or product usage to improve your applications. The best way to do this as an Atlas user is by using Atlas Charts – MongoDB’s first-class data visualization tool, built natively into MongoDB Atlas. Why choose Charts First, Charts is natively built for the document model. If you’re familiar with MongoDB, you should be familiar with documents. The document model is a data model made for the way developers think. And with Charts, you can take your data from documents and collections in Atlas, and visualize them with no ETL, data movement or duplication. This speeds up your ability to discover insights. Second, Charts supports all cluster configurations you can create in Atlas, including dedicated clusters, serverless instances, data stored in Online Archive, as well as federated data in Atlas Data Federation. Typically when you learn about a company’s integrated products and services, you find some “gotchas” or limitations that make any benefits come at a significant cost. In the case of a MongoDB Atlas customer, that could come in the form of someone finding out that a cluster configuration option isn’t supported by Charts. But that will never be the case. If you create and manage your application data in Atlas, you can visualize it in Charts. That’s it. Third, Charts is a robust data visualization tool with a variety of chart types, extensive customization options, and interactivity. Compared to other options in the business intelligence market, you get the same key benefits, without all the complexity. You can learn how to use Charts in a few hours and you can easily teach your team. It’s the simplest data visualization solution for most teams. Fourth, the value of Charts can extend beyond individual use cases, with sharing and embedding . This lets you both flexibly share charts and dashboards with your team, as well as embed them into contexts that matter most to your data consumers, such as in a blog post or inside your company’s wiki. Finally, Charts is free for Atlas users up to 1GB per project per month, which covers moderate usage for most teams. There are no seat-based licensing fees associated with Charts, so no matter how many team members you have, Charts will remain a low-cost, if not zero cost solution for your data visualization needs. Beyond the included free usage, it’s just $1/GB transferred per month. You can check out more pricing details here . How to use Charts The best way to learn how to use Charts is to simply give it a try. It’s free to use and we have a variety of sample dashboards you can use to get started. But let’s walk through some basics to help illustrate the kinds of visualizations that Charts can enable. Charts makes visualizing your data easy by automatically making your Atlas deployments (any cluster configuration) available for visualization. If you’re a project owner, you can manage permissions to data sources in Charts. We could write an entire blog post on data sources, but if you’re just getting started, just know that your data is made easily available in Charts unless your project owner intentionally hides it. Create a dashboard Everything in Charts starts with a dashboard and creating a dashboard is easy. Simply select the Add Dashboard button at the top right of the Charts page in Atlas . From there, you’ll fill in some basic information like a title and optional description, and you’re on your way. Here’s what one of our new sample dashboards looks like. They are a great place to start: Build a chart Once you have a dashboard created, you can add your first chart. The chart builder gives you a simple and powerful drag and drop interface to help you quickly construct charts. The first step is selecting your data source: Once you have a data source selected, simply add desired fields into your chart and start customizing. The example below uses our IoT sample dashboard dataset to create a bar chart displaying the total distance traveled by different users. From there you can add filters and further customize your chart by adding custom colors, data labels, and more. The chart builder even allows you to write, save, and share queries and aggregation pipelines as shown below. You can learn more in our documentation. Play around with the chart builder to get familiar with all of its functionality. Share and embed A chart can be useful in itself to individual users, but we see users get the most benefit out of Charts when sharing visualizations with others. Once you have created a dashboard with one or more charts, we offer a variety of options letting you share your dashboards with your team, your organization, or via a public link if your data is not sensitive. If you would rather embed a chart or dashboard where your team is already consuming information, check out Charts embedding functionality. Charts lets you embed a chart or dashboard via iframe or SDK, depending on your use case. Check out our embedding documentation to learn more. That was just a brief overview of how to build your first charts and dashboards in Atlas Charts, but there’s a lot more functionality to explore. For a full walkthrough, watch our product demo here: Atlas Charts is the only native data visualization tool built for the document model and it’s the quickest and easiest way to get started visualizing data from Atlas. We hope this introduction helps you get started using Charts to gain greater visibility into your application data, helping you to make better decisions on your data. Get started with Atlas Charts today by logging into or signing up for MongoDB Atlas , deploying or selecting a cluster, and navigating to the Charts tab to activate for free.

March 16, 2023
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MongoDB助力腾讯游戏 优化游戏开发体验

客户简介 腾讯游戏提倡超级数字场景 连接数亿游戏玩家 作为“超级数字场景”理念的倡导者和实践者，腾讯游戏致力于为用户创造高品质数字生活体验，为产业和社会发展创造更多建设性的价值。 腾讯游戏为全球知名的游戏开发与服务运营商，在全球连接超过8亿的用户。在开放发展的模式下，腾讯游戏采取自主研发和多元化的外部合作相结合的方式，在网络游戏众多细分市场领域形成专业化布局，打造覆盖全品类的产品阵营，为全球网络游戏玩家提供休闲游戏平台、大型网游、中型休闲游戏、桌面游戏、对战平台五大类。另外，腾讯游戏与全球顶级游戏开发公司建立深度合作，将国外优质的前沿产品体验带到中国，也将中国的游戏带向世界。 2021年3月，腾讯游戏针对国际业务推出了在线游戏开发平台Level Infinite PGOS（Level Infinite Game Online Service）。Level Infinite PGOS是一种游戏在线服务解决方案，旨在降低游戏后端开发和维护的难度，同时降低成本，从而使开发者专注于游戏玩法与核心逻辑开发。 业务挑战 产品力主导游戏行业竞争 游戏出海面临多重挑战 全球游戏市场规模不断扩大，游戏产业已成为一种重要的文化产业。据市场调查机构 Newzoo 最新数据显示，2023年全球游戏市场规模预计将超过1877亿美元，同比增长2.6%。 游戏市场潜力巨大、前景看好，与此同时游戏开发竞争也变得异常激烈。游戏品类越来越多、玩法越来越多，给游戏开发带来更高要求：游戏设计和架构越来越复杂，游戏开发成本水涨船高，游戏复用性较低，新项目启动门槛更高等等。 尤其对于腾讯游戏海外业务来说，研发更需要具备全球发行、全球部署的能力，直接拉升了对于底层数据架构的要求，当中包括：需要提供多租户SaaS模式；能够物理隔离每个游戏大区，满足全球各个区域的隐私保护；以及可在全球各个地区进行分布式部署、自动扩容、缩容等。 解决方案 深度契合游戏业务场景 为了应对游戏行业的最新趋势和海外市场的挑战，腾讯游戏推出为海外游戏而设的Level Infinite PGOS通用平台。Level Infinite PGOS是一套多租户SaaS游戏后台解决方案，采用全球化分布式架构，在欧洲、北美、日韩、东南亚等游戏发行热点区域部署运行。 数据库是游戏软件的核心组件，游戏玩家的各种信息、运营数据、游戏场景数据等都需要借助数据库来保存。对于数据存储系统，Level Infinite PGOS根据自身场景进行了严格的测试选型，最终采用MongoDB作为核心存储组件，成为一整套覆盖游戏各个维度、各个生命周期的解决方案。 玩家数据存储 – 与传统游戏开发有所不同，使用MongoDB去存储玩家的基础数据，不会将MongoDB直接暴露给游戏去使用，开发者无需关心底层的数据细节，即可直接灵活定义数据，例如，不同游戏可定义不同数据模板。此外，MongoDB 支持多种数据类型和数据原子运算，易于实现幂等操作；而且基于MongoDB的分片可横向扩容，对于一些爆款游戏来说，这一点很重要，可以不用担心玩家规模的快速增加。 智能对局匹配 – 在很多游戏中，都需要在平台上匹配两名玩家去进行对局竞技。以腾讯游戏为例，如果是一款全球发行的游戏，就有可能在不同游戏大区匹配到两名玩家，这种匹配看似随意，但却需要后台具备强有力的数据处理能力。技术调度要同时满足不同区域的服务器集群，也就是满足不同场景需求下的服务器扩容。腾讯游戏底层通过MongoDB实现原子化操作，经过玩家各种属性的对比，找到一个距离各个玩家最近的服务器，并进行服务器分配，最终形成一个对局。 游戏内经济系统闭环 – 假设把游戏内的经济系统理解为一个特殊的交易场景，在处理游戏交易的过程中，涉及到订单、退款、跟踪回溯等多个环节，而通过MongoDB的原子化、事务性操作可以将整个交易流程一次性完成。虽然游戏内交易是虚拟的、复杂的，但采用MongoDB可以保证交易是规范的、完整的。 数据流能力 – 游戏开发者需要跟踪玩家各种行为事件，以便形成流水日志，同时要保证玩家的所有事件是可追溯、可查询的。MongoDB的数据库实例，可将这些流水日志存储起来，并基于灵活的文档结构，让开发者不论是在开发期间、还是游戏已经发行的期间，都可以快速检索玩家的所有事件流。 客户价值 优化开发体验 拉升运维能力 根据数据显示，2023年一季度，腾讯的游戏领域收入达到483亿元，而其中132亿元来自国际市场，占游戏整体收入的27%，可见腾讯在海外市场的巨大潜力和影响力。对腾讯游戏而言，全球化协作体系已然成型。在多元化布局和全球化视野之下，中国游戏既要在内容创新、玩法创新上学习更多，也要将支持大规模玩家在线的后台技术越做越强。 回顾与MongoDB的合作历程，腾讯海外游戏Level Infinite PGOS平台负责人谢磊谈到，无论在功能还是性能上，MongoDB都很好地契合了游戏业务场景，带给腾讯游戏的不只是功能价值，还有运维价值： 简单、易用的控制台 实现全面托管服务，即时自动扩缩容的专用服务器，为实时游戏提供低延迟和高可靠性。 丰富的可视化监控 提供实时可视化日志、监控面板，研发人员、管理人员可以实时监控业务运行状态。 一键升配、降配能力 在访问量突增时，一键自动扩容保障业务的正常运行；在流量低谷，一键自动缩容以节约成本。 多维告警能力 提供运行时间、状态异常等多维度告警能力，使问题可以在最短的时间内被捕捉并通知到用户。 客户证言 腾讯海外游戏Level Infinite PGOS平台负责人 谢磊： “游戏行业的发展越来越由产品力主导。Level Infinite PGOS平台最大的使命是要能够将更新、更现代化的开发模式与腾讯已有能力结合在一起，形成开发体验良好的平台，其中尤为重要的是需要符合海外开发人员开发习惯。正是在这样的背景之下，我们的底层技术选择使用MongoDB。可以说，MongoDB让腾讯游戏Level Infinite PGOS如虎添翼。”

November 29, 2023