Why You Can Get a Ticket to MongoDB World for $224

If you’ve attended a conference before, you know that large, multi-day events can be quite costly. The reason for this is that organizing a conference is expensive. Offering attendees an unforgettable experience complete with expert speakers, a memorable after party, and good food comes with a hefty price tag.

At MongoDB, our goal is to host events that are accessible to our community members. We want you to be able to attend MongoDB World, learn, develop new ideas, and connect with other contributors. We realized that by offering tickets that cost more than $1,000, we excluded part of our community, individuals or companies who were unable to afford to pay this ticket price.

The content at our events is not just tailored towards developers who work at large corporations. It’s also crafted with the open source community in mind. This includes independent consultants, academics, and government organizations, who are often priced out of large conferences.

For this reason, we’re excited to announce that we’ve created an accessible pricing model for MongoDB World 2017. You can now attend our annual two-day conference for as low as $224.25! The earlier you book, the lower your price. If you wait, a general admission ticket will still only cost you $499.

With this new pricing we hope MongoDB World 2017 will be accessible to more people in the community, whether they are students, freelancers, or startup and nonprofit employees. Even at a new price point we’ll still bring you a high-quality, community-centric conference, loaded with education, networking, and yes – an unforgettable after party.

Can’t wait to see you in Chicago on June 20-21!


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What’s New in MongoDB 3.4, Part 3: Modernized Database Tooling

Welcome to the final post in our 3-part MongoDB 3.4 blog series. In part 1 we demonstrated the extended multimodel capabilities of MongoDB 3.4, including native graph processing, faceted navigation, rich real-time analytics, and powerful connectors for BI and Apache Spark In part 2 we covered the enhanced capabilities for running mission-critical applications, including geo-distributed MongoDB zones, elastic clustering, tunable consistency, and enhanced security controls. We are concluding this series with the modernized DBA and Ops tooling available in MongoDB 3.4. Remember, if you want to get the detail now on everything the new release offers, download the What’s New in MongoDB 3.4 white paper . MongoDB Compass MongoDB Compass is the easiest way for DBAs to explore and manage MongoDB data. As the GUI for MongoDB, Compass enables users to visually explore their data, and run ad-hoc queries in seconds – all with zero knowledge of MongoDB's query language. The latest Compass release expands functionality to allow users to manipulate documents directly from the GUI, optimize performance, and create data governance controls. DBAs can interact with and manipulate MongoDB data from Compass. They can edit, insert, delete, or clone existing documents to fix data quality or schema issues in individual documents identified during data exploration. If a batch of documents need to be updated, the query string generated by Compass can be used in an update command within the mongo shell. Trying to parse text output can significantly increase the time to resolve query performance issues. Visualization is core to Compass, and has now been extended to generating real-time performance statistics, and presenting indexes and explain plans. Figure 1: Real-time performance statistics now available from MongoDB Compass The visualization of the same real-time server statistics generated by the mongotop and mongostat commands directly within the Compass GUI allows DBAs to gain an immediate snapshot of server status and query performance. If performance issues are identified, DBAs can visualize index coverage, enabling them to determine which specific fields are indexed, their type, size, and how often they are used. Compass also provides the ability to visualize explain plans, presenting key information on how a query performed – for example the number of documents returned, execution time, index usage, and more. Each stage of the execution pipeline is represented as a node in a tree, making it simple to view explain plans from queries distributed across multiple nodes. If specific actions, such as adding a new index, need to be taken, DBAs can use MongoDB’s management tools to automate index builds across the cluster. Figure 2: MongoDB Compass visual query plan for performance optimization across distributed clusters Document validation allows DBAs to enforce data governance by applying checks on document structure, data types, data ranges, and the presence of mandatory fields. Validation rules can now be managed from the Compass GUI. Rules can be created and modified directly using a simple point and click interface, and any documents violating the rules can be clearly presented. DBAs can then use Compass’s CRUD support to fix data quality issues in individual documents. MongoDB Compass is included with both MongoDB Professional and MongoDB Enterprise Advanced subscriptions used with your self-managed instances, or hosted MongoDB Atlas instances. MongoDB Compass is free to use for evaluation and in development environments. You can get MongoDB Compass from the download center , and read about it in the documentation . Operational Management for DevOps Teams Ops Manager is the simplest way to run MongoDB on your own infrastructure, making it easy for operations teams to deploy, monitor, backup, and scale MongoDB. Ops Manager is available as part of MongoDB Enterprise Advanced, and its capabilities are also available in Cloud Manager , a tool hosted by MongoDB in the cloud. Ops Manager and Cloud Manager provide an integrated suite of applications that manage the complete lifecycle of the database: Automated deployment and management with a single click and zero-downtime upgrades Proactive monitoring providing visibility into the performance of MongoDB, history, and automated alerting on 100+ system metrics Disaster recovery with continuous, incremental backup and point-in-time recovery, including the restoration of complete running clusters from your backup files Ops Manager has been enhanced as part of the MongoDB 3.4 release, now offering: Finer-grained monitoring telemetry Configuration of MongoDB zones and LDAP security Richer private cloud integration with server pools and Cloud Foundry Encrypted backups Support for Amazon S3 as a location for backups Ops Manager Monitoring Ops Manager now allows telemetry data to be collected every 10 seconds, up from the previous minimum 60 seconds interval. By default, telemetry data at the 10-second interval is available for 24 hours. 60-second telemetry is retained for 7 days, up from the previous 48-hour period. These retention policies are now fully configurable, so administrators can tune the timelines available for trend analysis, capacity planning, and troubleshooting. Generating telemetry views synthesized from hardware and software statistics helps administrators gain a complete view of each instance to better monitor and maintain database health. Ops Manager has always displayed hardware monitoring telemetry alongside metrics collected from the database, but required a third party agent to collect the raw hardware data. The agent increased the number of system components to manage, and was only available for Linux hosts. The Ops Manager agent has now been extended to collect hardware statistics, such as disk utilization and CPU usage, alongside existing MongoDB telemetry. In addition, platform support has been extended to include Windows and OS X. Private Cloud Integration Many organizations are seeking to replicate benefits of the public cloud into their own infrastructure through the build-out of private clouds. A number of organizations are using MongoDB Enterprise Advanced to deliver an on-premise Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS). This allows them to standardize the way in which internal business units and project teams consume MongoDB, improving business agility, corporate governance, cost allocation, and operational efficiency. Ops Manager now provides the ability to create pre-provisioned server pools. The Ops Manager agent can be installed across a fleet of servers (physical hardware, VMs, AWS instances, etc.) by a configuration management tool such as Chef, Puppet, or Ansible. The server pool can then be exposed to internal teams, ready for provisioning servers into their local groups, either by the programmatic Ops Manager API or the Ops Manager GUI. When users request an instance, Ops Manager will remove the server from the pool, and then provision and configure it into the local group. It can return the server to the pool when it is no longer required, all without sysadmin intervention. Administrators can track when servers are provisioned from the pool, and receive alerts when available server resources are running low. Pre-provisioned server pools allow administrators to create true, on-demand database resources for private cloud environments. You can learn more about provisioning with Ops Manager server pools from the documentation. Building upon server pools, Ops Manager now offers certified integration with Cloud Foundry. BOSH, the Cloud Foundry configuration management tool, can install the Ops Manager agent onto the server configuration requested by the user, and then use the Ops Manager API to build the desired MongoDB configuration. Once the deployment has reached goal state, Cloud Foundry will notify the user of the URL of their MongoDB deployment. From this point, users can log in to Ops Manager to monitor, back-up, and automate upgrades of their deployment. MongoDB Ops Manager is available for evaluation from the download center . Backups to Amazon S3 Ops Manager can now store backups in the Amazon S3 storage service, with support for deduplication, compression, and encryption. The addition of S3 provides administrators with greater choice in selecting the backup storage architecture that best meets specific organizational requirements for data protection: MongoDB blockstore backups Filesystem backups (SAN, NAS, & NFS) Amazon S3 backups Whichever architecture is chosen, administrators gain all of the benefits of Ops Manager, including point-in-time recovery of replica sets, cluster-wide snapshots of sharded databases, and data encryption. You can learn more about Ops Manager backups from the documentation . MongoDB Atlas: VPC Peering The MongoDB Atlas database service provides the features of MongoDB, without the operational heavy lifting required for any new application. MongoDB Atlas is available on-demand through a pay-as-you-go model and billed on an hourly basis, letting developers focus on apps, rather than ops. MongoDB Atlas offers the latest 3.4 release (community edition) as an option. In addition, MongoDB Atlas also now offers AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) peering . Each MongoDB Atlas group is provisioned into its own AWS VPC, thus isolating the customer’s data and underlying systems from other MongoDB Atlas users. With the addition of VPC peering, customers can now connect their application servers deployed to another AWS VPC directly to their MongoDB Atlas cluster using private IP addresses. Whitelisting public IP addresses is not required for servers accessing MongoDB Atlas from a peered VPC. Services such as AWS Elastic Beanstalk or AWS Lambda that use non-deterministic IP addresses can also be connected to MongoDB Atlas without having to open up wide public IP ranges that could compromise security. VPC peering allows users to create an extended, private network connecting their application servers and backend databases. You can learn more about MongoDB Atlas from the documentation . Next Steps As we have seen through this blog series, MongoDB 3.4 is a significant evolution of the industry’s fastest growing database: Native graph processing, faceted navigation, richer real-time analytics, and powerful connectors for BI and Spark integration bring additional multimodel database support right into MongoDB. Geo-distributed MongoDB zones, elastic clustering, tunable consistency, and enhanced security controls bring state-of-the-art database technology to your most mission-critical applications. Enhanced DBA and DevOps tooling for schema management, fine-grained monitoring, and cloud-native integration allow engineering teams to ship applications faster, with less overhead and higher quality. Remember, you can get the detail now on everything packed into the new release by downloading the What’s New in MongoDB 3.4 white paper . Alternatively, if you’d had enough of reading about it and want to get started now, then: Download MongoDB 3.4 Alternatively, spin up your own MongoDB 3.4 cluster on the MongoDB Atlas database service Sign up for our free 3.4 training from the MongoDB University

December 28, 2016
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Being Latine in Tech: Two MongoDB Employees Share Their Advice on Building Careers in Engineering

Ashley Naranjo and Martin Bajana, members of MongoDB’s employee resource group QueLatine, share their career journeys and offer insight into how other members of the Latine community can build careers in tech. Jackie Denner: How did you make your way into the tech industry? Ashley Naranjo: I am a first-generation Latina with a passion for Information Technology and a knack for problem-solving. After graduating early from high school, I embarked on a career in Nursing. I chose Nursing initially because I wanted to make a difference and help others, but my path took an unexpected turn when COVID-19 reshaped our world. In light of the circumstances, I reevaluated my options and decided to seize an opportunity with a program called Year Up . During the intensive six-month training and deployment phase, I not only completed rigorous coursework but also obtained IT Google Coursera certifications and actively pursued CompTIA certifications. This experience allowed me to secure an internship at Meta (Facebook) as an Enterprise Operation IT Support Tech, where my love for technology blossomed. During my time at Meta, I had the privilege of assisting diverse Meta users worldwide with a wide range of technical issues, including troubleshooting, software and hardware support, internal access permissions, and more. The exposure to a global tech environment further fueled my passion for the field. When my internship concluded, I was offered a 1-year contract role with Meta to continue my work as a support tech for the same team. Throughout that year, I immersed myself in all aspects of technology, maximizing my learning opportunities and applying my networking skills. As time went on, I knew I needed a new challenge. This led me to embark on a search for an exciting role, which eventually brought me to MongoDB. I am passionate about driving technological innovation, and MongoDB is a place where I can make an impact. Martin Bajana: My interest in technology stems from a variety of sources. From a young age, I developed a strong passion for video games and exploring new technologies. Whether it was experimenting with the latest gaming consoles or delving into computer hardware, I relished the opportunity to learn and understand the inner workings of these technologies. In school, I discovered my affinity for mathematics, which further solidified my decision to pursue a career in the tech industry. Choosing to study computer science in college was a natural progression for me, as it allowed me to combine my love for technology with my aptitude for problem-solving. After completing my education, I was recruited by Verizon, where I worked on front-end applications and Android development. Although the transition was initially challenging, I persevered and regained my confidence. It was during this period that I realized a career in technology was my long-term aspiration. Throughout my tenure at Verizon, I embraced opportunities to work across various teams, acquiring valuable experience and honing my skills. Eventually, I made the decision to join MongoDB, which has provided me with an enriching journey and the chance to shape my career in the tech industry. JD: Have there been any challenges you've faced throughout your career? AN: Imposter syndrome has been a significant challenge for me throughout my career, and it's something I still deal with to this day. When surrounded by my talented colleagues, I would often compare myself to them and focus on my perceived weaknesses and flaws, leading to a lack of self-confidence. However, I tackled this issue by addressing my feelings with my manager. Her support and guidance helped me realize my own potential and acknowledge my accomplishments. Maintaining a positive mindset has enabled me to view myself as a competent engineer and recognize the value I bring to my team. I have learned to take ownership of my successes and embrace opportunities for growth. Stepping out of my comfort zone has become a regular practice, as personal and professional development often stems from embracing challenges and discomfort. By giving myself permission to take up space and be confident in my abilities, I have been able to overcome imposter syndrome and continue to thrive in my role. MB: I have been fortunate enough to work for companies and teams that value and respect me for the work I deliver. Being in the tech industry and growing up in a culturally diverse region of the country, I have had exposure to individuals from various backgrounds and identities, which has made me more comfortable as a Latinx individual in the industry. My personal goal is to promote a work environment where everyone is judged based on the contributions they bring to the team, rather than their identity. I believe in supporting and respecting the identities of my peers and coworkers while fostering a culture of inclusivity and equality. JD: How has MongoDB supported your career growth and development? AN: In my time working at MongoDB, I have experienced exceptional support that has greatly contributed to my professional development and growth. As an engineer at MongoDB, I have been provided with numerous opportunities to expand my knowledge and skills through participation in tech talks, hackathons, and continuous learning about emerging technologies. I am grateful for the proactive approach taken by my manager and team leaders in fostering my growth as an engineer. Additionally, MongoDB's commitment to diversity and inclusion is evident through the company's DEI initiatives. Platforms like our employee resource group “QueLatine” have made me feel a stronger sense of connection and belonging, particularly among my Latinx peers. By recognizing the power of our diverse backgrounds and experiences, MongoDB empowers us to have a meaningful impact in the industry. MB: I have experienced full support from my leader since day one. They have proactively sought to understand my career goals and have helped me create a clear career path to achieve those goals. This level of support has enabled me to take on challenging projects and initiatives within the company, allowing me to grow and develop in my career. Furthermore, MongoDB offers a wealth of learning and development resources to its employees, which I have fully utilized to continue learning and growing my skill set. JD: What is your advice for other Latines who want to begin careers in tech? AN: Having made a significant career change myself, I can empathize with the challenges that come with exploring new paths, particularly in the tech industry. As a Latina in tech, I feel a strong desire to encourage and raise awareness within our community about the incredible resources and opportunities that are available to us. My advice to others who may be considering a similar journey is to prioritize the continuous development of your technical skills, actively seek out mentoring opportunities, push yourself beyond your comfort zone by honing your networking abilities, and most importantly, believe in yourself and your ability to achieve great things! MB: Navigating the vast world of technology can certainly be overwhelming, but it's important not to fear feeling lost. Even after 12 years in this career, there are still days where I come across something I've never heard of before. Fortunately, we live in a world abundant with resources for continuous learning. My advice is to take the time to explore and ask questions. Seek out open-source projects that you can contribute to, and connect with other professionals in the tech industry who can share their experiences and provide guidance. Additionally, taking advantage of hackathons and other tech events can expose you to new technologies and ideas. Don't be afraid to make mistakes, and most importantly, don't give up! Join us in transforming the way developers work with data. Build your tech career at MongoDB .

September 20, 2023