Developers everywhere have embraced document databases. But in many cases, it’s for the wrong reasons. Take the current hype around going schemaless — it’s almost too easy to store arbitrary JSON or XML in a document database. But if you expect to filter, modify and retrieve it efficiently, you may be setting yourself up for disappointment. On today's episode, we're talking with John Page, Distinguished Engineer at MongoDB about the concepts and myths surrounding the schemaless nature of document databases and MongoDB. 

John's Blog: https://medium.com/@johnlpage

John's Article on The New Stack: https://thenewstack.io/debunking-the-myth-of-going-schemaless/

MongoDB is coming to the Game Developers Conference March 21st thru March 25th. Stop by the MongoDB booth to share your story with the Podcast. Mention the word podcast to receive a special SWAG Surprise. 

MongoDB World is coming to New York City June 7th - 9th. Visit https://mongodb.com/world-2022 for more details. Be sure to use the code "PODCAST" for an additional 25% discount

With nearly 500 million gamers worldwide, the Esports industry market is approaching $200 billion USD. Today's gamers are engaging in fierce competition for cash and prizes and on today's episode, Michael chats with Ronald Chen, Principal Software Engineer at Battlefy, one of the most popular Esports Tournament companies. 

Ronald has been working on the Battlefy platform since 2013 and talks about the motivations for using MongoDB and why the document model works so well for modern applications.

Ronald writes about his experience on the Battlefy Blog. You can read more at https://blog.battlefy.com

Battlefy is hiring! https://apply.workable.com/battlefy/

Swyx is Head of Developer Experience at Temporal.io. He's written a book entitled Learn in Public - The Coding Career Handbook. The book is a great resource for developers of all experience levels. 

Buy the Book: https://learninpublic.org

Use the Coupon Code MongoDB30 for a discount.

Find Swyx on Twitter: https://twitter.com/swyx

Read more about Temporal, the workflow engine for microservices: https://docs.temporal.io/docs/typescript/introduction/

Check out MongoDB University https://university.mongodb.com - Build your MongoDB skills and advance your career with courses and certification. Learn to build better, faster applications for free.

MongoDB .Local is a great conference concept featuring uniquely hybrid offerings including education, keynotes and product updates, and entertainment curated for those joining live in person, live from home, or on-demand.

The latest .Local was held on November 9th, 2021 at Evolution, London. In this episode, Karen Hualme joins the growing ranks of MongoDB Podcast guests and shares her experience as a Principal Developer Advocate. Next, John Page stops by to talk about his favorite announcements from the conference and to share details of the amazing projects he's working on for the MongoDB Community.

This episode was brought to you, in part by the MongoDB Engineering team. We're hiring! If you've thought about joining the team that's working hard to improve on the best data platform on the planet, visit https://bit.ly/mongodbengineering to find out more information and apply. 

MongoDB Conferences are a great way to connect with the community, learn from others doing what you're doing and they provide a great opportunity to share what you know. MongoDB World Call for Speakers is open! If you want to learn more about speaking at a MongoDB Conference, visit https://bit.ly/speakatworld. If you're concerned that you might not be ready, be sure to check out Episode 75 of this podcast to learn all about the MongoDB Speaker Program.

Cademy is a hyper-local educator marketplace that enables content and course creators to more easily administer and market their courses. Reducing the time and effort spent on admin so they can focus on what truly matters - teaching and making your students happy!  Harry Swan is the CTO, and Co-founder of Cademy. He stopped by the podcast booth at MongoDB .Local London to share details of his journey with MongoDB and his thoughts on some of the latest innovations presented at the conference. 

MongoDB .Local is a great conference concept featuring uniquely hybrid offerings including education, keynotes and product updates, and entertainment curated for those joining live in person, live from home, or on-demand.

The latest .Local was held on November 9th, 2021 at Evolution, London. In this, the first in a series episodes recorded live at the event, we chat with two industry veterans, Matt Asay, and Joe Drumgoole.  Matt and Joe share their experience as long time (and in Matt's case, returning) MongoDB employees as well as their thoughts on the latest announcements from the event. 

Next.JS is an open-source JavaScript framework built on top of React. It gives you some great convenience features and offers an opinionated approach to application development that can alleviate a lot of questions about how to accomplish common tasks. Ado Kukic from MongoDB's Developer Advocacy team joins Michael today to share his experience around Next.JS and to help us understand how it works, and how it fits into the application development stack that includes MongoDB. 

Be sure to check out the tutorial Ado wrote on integrating MongoDB with Next.JS.

• https://www.mongodb.com/developer/how-to/nextjs-with-mongodb/

Here we are in November of 2021. The pandemic continues to impact the way we’re all working, doing business and connecting with other people.

One powerful way that technologists from all industries have connected is through attendance at conferences. I’m no different… I find attending a good tech conference to be a valuable part of my continuing education. From large scale conferences like the Consumer Electronics Show, and AWS Re:invent, to language-aligned conferences like Gophercon, and PyCon.

I go because it’s an opportunity to meet professionals and gain valuable perspective… and learn about the latest updates from vendors and technology providers. 

On today's episode, we’re focusing on Tech Events and Conferences and to help guide a discussion about this and about the changing landscape of tech events throughout the pandemic, I’ve invited two of my highly esteemed colleagues from MongoDB’s amazing Events Management team… Nancy Monaghan and Dorothy McClelland. 

If you’re a technologist interested in the new and exciting ways, we at MongoDB are approaching hybrid conferences or if you’re considering changes to the way you run and host events, this episode is for you. 

Shrey Batra is an engineer at LinkedIn. Shrey is a long-time member of the MongoDB Community and has spoken at MongoDB Conferences and led user group activities for quite some time. 

Shrey joins Michael Lynn today to talk about writing scalable applications for Big Data. Shrey stresses the importance of data modeling, and shares techniques that he has leveraged to ensure that applications can not only manage large volumes of data but that can scale over time as use patterns grow and change. 

Resources:

Data Model Examples and Patterns: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/applications/data-models/

MongoDB University - M320 Data Modeling:
https://university.mongodb.com/courses/M320/about

Serverless computing, pioneered by platforms such as AWS Lambda, is a relatively new computing paradigm that developers are increasingly using as a tool for building applications in the cloud.

Generally speaking, a solution is serverless if it can automatically and dynamically match compute and storage resources to workload demands.

On today's show, Chris Shum, Sr. Product Manager for MongoDB Serverless (available in preview) joins Michael to talk about what Serverless means in the MongoDB context, how it was created and why you should be interested.