T-6: MongoDB World's Give Back Week

Dj Walker-Morgan
May 7, 2019 | Updated: July 3, 2019
#MongoDB World 2019

With six weeks to go before MongoDB World 2019, learn how you could be giving to a good cause when you buy your pass this week, get ready for the next weekly challenge, and catch up with the latest talks that have made it into the schedule.

Give Back Week

If you haven’t registered for MongoDB World, the bad news is that you’ve missed the early bird rates. The good news is that if you register this week, you’ll get a discounted ticket and 10% of your ticket price will be donated to Black Girls Code.

That means you get to go to MongoDB World’s three days of information rich talks, sessions and events for less and you get to help fund an organisation dedicated to empowering girls of color between 7 and 17 to become STEM innovators, community leaders and future builders, all through exposing them to computer science and technology.

Head over to the MongoDB World site and register; the discount is automatically applied to all types of ticket. The donation to Black Girls Code is based on that discounted price.

Challenge Update

The first week of Eliot’s MongoDB World Weekly Challenge was a great success - you can read up on how the challenge was solved in this post - Solving The Aggregation Rock Star Challenge. If you get over to the challenge's web site you’ll see the next challenge is tomorrow and involves charting a holiday for engineers.

Talks Talk

There’s still talks being added to the schedule as we finalise speakers and subjects.

That's it for T-6, the countdown to MongoDB World 2019 continues with T-5 next week!

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Solving The Aggregation Rock Star Challenge

The first of Eliot's MongoDB World Weekly Challenges was an out of this world challenge to analyse the records of meteorite impacts. Even if you didn't do the challenge (there's one every Wednesday up to MongoDB World), you can still be a winner because we're going to show you how to get the solution.

May 7, 2019
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There’s a reason why Compass is one of MongoDB’s most-loved developer tools: because it provides an approachable and powerful visual user interface for interacting with data on MongoDB. As part of this, Compass’s Aggregation Pipeline Builder abstracts away the finer points of MongoDB’s Query API syntax and provides a guided experience for developing complex queries. But what about when you want less rather than more abstraction? That’s where our new Aggregation Pipeline Text Editor comes in. Recently released on Compass, the Aggregation Pipeline Text Editor allows users to write free-form aggregations. While users could previously write and edit pipelines through a guided and structured builder organized by aggregation stage, a text-based builder can be preferable for some users. This new pipeline editor makes it easy for users to: See the entire pipeline without having to excessively scroll through the UI Stay “in the flow” when writing aggregations if they are already familiar with MongoDB’s Query API syntax Copy and paste aggregations built elsewhere (like in MongoDB’s VS Code Extension ) into Compass Use built-in syntax formatting to make pipeline text “pretty” before copying it over from Compass to other tools The Aggregation Pipeline Text Editor in Compass. Notice how toward the top right you can click on “stages” to move back to the traditional stage-based Aggregation Pipeline Builder. Ultimately, the addition of the Aggregation Pipeline Text Editor to Compass gives users more flexibility depending on how they want to build aggregations. For a more guided experience and to get result previews when adding each new stage, the existing Aggregation Pipeline Builder will work best for most users. But when writing free-form aggregations or copying and pasting aggregation text from other tools, the Aggregation Pipeline Text Editor may be preferable. It also previews the final pipeline output, rather than the stage-by-stage preview that exists today. Users will be able to access either both the traditional Aggregation Pipeline Builder and the new Pipeline Text Editor from directly within the Aggregations tab in Compass and can switch between the two views without losing their work. To get access to the new Aggregation Pipeline Text Editor, make sure to download the latest version of Compass here . And as always, we welcome your continued feedback on how to improve Compass. If you have ideas for how to improve your experience with Compass you can submit them on our UserVoice platform here . We’ll have even more great features coming in Compass soon. Keep checking back on our blog for the latest news!

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