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Welcome to The Index!
Each week, we bring you the latest and greatest from our Developer Relations team — from articles and YouTube videos to meet-ups and conferences — so you don’t miss a thing.
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Featured Post
Seamless Media Storage: Integrating Azure Blob Storage and MongoDB with Spring Boot by Tim Kelly
In this tutorial, we are going to build a Java API with Spring Boot that allows you to upload your files, along with any metadata you wish to store.
Other Good Reads
Building a Python Data Access Layer by Mark Smith
Me and the Devil BlueZ: Implementing a BLE Central in Linux - Part 1 by Jorge Ortiz-Fuentes
Introduction to LangChain and MongoDB Atlas Vector Search by Anaiya Raisinghani and Prakul Agarwal
Getting Started with MongoDB Atlas and Ruby on Rails by Luce Carter
Entangled: A Story of Data Re-modeling and 10x Storage Reduction by @NeNaD
Semantic Search Made Easy With LangChain and MongoDB by @ Brian Leonard
How to Set Up MongoDB Class Maps for C# for Optimal Query Performance and Storage Size by @Markus_Wildgruber
Building a Scalable Media Management Back End: Integrating Node.js, Azure Blob Storage, and MongoDB by Tim Kelly
Boosting AI: Build Your Chatbot Over Your Data With MongoDB Atlas Vector Search and LangChain Templates Using the RAG Pattern by @Arkadiusz_Borucki
Migrating PostgreSQL to MongoDB Using Confluent Kafka by @Rajesh_Nair1
Building AI Graphs with Rivet and MongoDB Atlas Vector Search to Power AI Applications by Pavel Duchovny, Andrew Rothwell, and Cai GoGwilt
Additionally, Community Champion @Roman_Right authored an article on crafting efficient MongoDB queries.
Mark Your Calendars
Every month, all across the globe, we organize, attend, speak at, and sponsor events, meetups, and shindigs to bring the DevRel community together. Here’s what we’ve got cooking:
Data Unleashed: Mastering Mobile, Web, and Atlas - A MongoDB Journey: January 19th 2024, 8:30pm – January 20th 2024, 1:30am, (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time
London MUG: January 25th 2024, 10:00am – 1:00pm, (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time
We had a great time at the Adobe Lehi campus in Utah for Developer Days where the MongoDB team walked the audience through various technical enablements tailored for Adobe use cases! We also had an engaging hands-on lab where the audience got to experience how to build with the powerful capabilities of MongoDB.
Community Champion @eliehannouch and Community Creator @Nisrine_bg spoke at DevFest North Lebanon about how MongoDB Atlas is a game-changer for tech startups.
Community Creator @niallmaher spoke at DevFest Ireland on building modern full-stack web apps with Next.js and MongoDB.
Community Champion @Leandro_Domingues spoke about the MongoDB Relational Migrator at The Developer Conference Porto Alegre.
Stop, Collaborate, and Listen
If reading’s not your jam, you might love catching up on our podcast episodes with @Michael_Lynn.
Not listening on Spotify? We got you! We’re also on Apple Podcasts, PlayerFM, Podtail, and Listen Notes. (We’d be forever grateful if you left us a review.)
Have you visited our YouTube channel lately? We have new videos from Luce and Erik.
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