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August 30, 2022
Applied
MOVING FROM MONOLITH TO MICROSERVICES: MARK PORTER AND ACCENTURE’S MICHAEL LJUNG
EXPLAIN
The first step in digital transformation for many organizations is to migrate
from legacy on-premises environments and move as many workloads as possible into
the public cloud. As seen in the first in our series of conversations between
Mark Porter, CTO of MongoDB, and Michael Ljung, Accenture ’s Global Lead,
Software Engineering, Accenture Cloud First, this is not always easy, but with
the right tools and planning, that migration can reap great benefits. The next
step in many organizations’ transformation is to dismantle their monolithic
applications — which often limit businesses’ ability to quickly innovate — and
move to applications built on a microservices architecture. Many organizations
are already well on their way. Research shows that 36% of large companies, 50%
of medium companies, and 44% of small companies are already using microservices
in their production and development. To explain this migration away from the
monolith, Porter and Ljung sat down to discuss the benefits of microservices,
how to size those services properly for best results, and how an Accenture
customer used a microservices approach to quickly roll out new features to help
provide COVID-19 vaccinations. Watch their full discussion: Why microservices?
Although teams choose a microservice architecture for a variety of reasons and
use cases , one driving force is that businesses now rely so heavily on software
for competitive advantage that they require a more rapid development cycle for
new releases. A monolithic approach does not support the fast time-to-market
cycles needed, nor does it provide the working environment developers need to
speed the release process. In their conversation, Porter and Ljung cover several
benefits of moving away from the monolith and adopting microservices at the
proper size, including the following: Microservices align to how humans work
best together. A large, monolithic codebase leads to complexity and creates
immense cognitive loads for the developers. They offer protection from complete
downtime. Microservices allow for compartmentalization to avoid a single point
of failure. By contrast, with a monolithic application, if something goes wrong,
everything goes wrong. They allow for better application scaling. With a
microservices architecture, only the features that require extra performance
need to be scaled. And they allow you to increase your speed to market. Some
teams have reported that moving to microservices and containers saw a 13x
increase in the frequency of software releases . Read the first installment in
this cloud migration series, “ Migrating to the Cloud Isn't As Easy As Most
People Think .”
September 1, 2022
Applied
BUILT WITH MONGODB: ALLOY TRANSFORMS ECOMMERCE WITH NO-CODE INTEGRATIONS
Gregg Mojica and Sara Du knew there was a need for simpler integrations with
ecommerce platforms because they had experienced it themselves. After becoming
friends through the open source community, they started a Shopify store as a
side project and became intrigued by the multitude of apps available in the
Shopify ecosystem — a large selection of integrations for things like ERP, email
and social media marketing, ads, marketing analytics, and more. Mojica and Du
also found that stitching together these disparate tools was overly complex and
that the tools were not geared toward ecommerce. Their company, Alloy Automation
, is a no-code integration solution that integrates with and automates ecommerce
services, such as CRM, logistics, subscriptions, and databases. For example,
Alloy can automate SMS messages to go out upon reaching fulfillment milestones.
It can automatically start a workflow when an event occurs in an online store or
in another app, create logic to define whether a follow-up action will be taken,
and use conditions like order tags or customer location to set up automated
actions that will pull and push data from connected apps. If order status is
updated to paid and the total value of order is greater than $100, for example,
Alloy Automation can automatically send a text message with a discount for an
additional purchase. Alloy is part of the MongoDB for Startups program, and this
article looks at how Alloy uses MongoDB and also benefits from the partnership
to overcome startup challenges. Jobs to be done Mojica, co-founder and CTO of
Alloy, sympathized with merchants that were trying to connect multistage
workflows using the limited tools that were available. "A lot of merchants have
relatively complex flows," he said. "They're cycling through abandoned carts,
checking if certain line items are present, and setting up very aggressive rules
that historically you would have to program yourself. But a lot of merchants
don't have the operating budget to hire expensive engineers to set up these
rules." Mojica applied the knowledge he had gained as an engineer in financial
services to address the integration problems he and Du were experiencing as
online merchants. Although Alloy was initially focused on solving general
ecommerce problems, Mojica says he realized that the tools he was building could
apply to more than just ecommerce. "Not only are we solving problems for
merchants but also for software and SaaS companies," Mojica said. "Now anybody
can build relatively complex automations without having engineering expertise.
Alloy can templatize those things and offer them as recipes on our platform – we
offer a business facing product called Alloy Embedded that allows anyone to
effortlessly connect to our integrations by implementing our SDK. Businesses can
get started very easily with just a few lines of code." Early stages Alloy is a
Y Combinator company — part of the cohort that was scheduled to demo their
products in March 2020, the very moment the world “locked down” because of the
COVID-19 pandemic. It still raised $5 million in a seed round , followed by $20
million in Series A funding in February 2022. In that time, the company has
expanded its platform to include more than 220 integrations, including MongoDB.
Alloy is a member of the MongoDB for Startups program, which provides Atlas
credits among other benefits for young companies, and it uses MongoDB Atlas as
the underlying database. Mojica cites several reasons for the close partnership
between the two companies. "Atlas was the database we chose from the beginning.
I personally have used MongoDB before, so I have a certain comfort level, and I
was the first person that wrote code in Alloy," Mojica said. "But another big
reason why I wanted to use MongoDB is the freeform nature of much of the data
that we ingest. We connect over 220 integrations, each one has its own schema,
and it's typically in JSON. So having a less structured way to store that
information compared with something highly delineated like SQL has been very
valuable to us." Growing pains Mojica and Du are acutely aware of the challenges
startups face, especially managing technical resources. "We like the fact that
MongoDB has really good support, there's built-in monitoring, and backups,”
Mojica said. “These things allow you to get going quickly. There's a lot of
pressure, especially in the very beginning, to get into Y Combinator. You've got
to build the product, get customers, and start your fundraise. That's a lot to
do in three months. What you don't want to worry about is all the DevOps stuff."
As startups begin to scale, they often become subject to compliance requirements
that present new technology hurdles. Alloy went through the compliance process
seamlessly thanks to the security capabilities and certifications behind MongoDB
Atlas. "We're servicing larger clients and seeing different use cases," Mojica
said. "The compliance process involved questions about where we're storing data
and if we're in different regions. Once your company is big enough, it's a major
concern. Just having SOC 2 certification and making sure we're following all the
various data privacy rules is really important. We're effectively an
intermediary for customer data, so compliance is really important, like when we
are deleting data for GDPR requests. MongoDB Atlas helps us with that. It's SOC
2 certified, and we can deploy in any region on any of the major cloud
providers. For us, that meant setting up a Network Peering Connection to our AWS
VPC from Atlas. So, from a security and compliance perspective, we know that's
all taken care of." Making the MongoDB connection "We added a MongoDB connector
to our platform because we were hearing interest from our user base,” Mojica
explained. “If you want to integrate with a series of different tools and you're
also sending data to MongoDB Atlas, instead of having to build those
integrations every time, Alloy already has the infrastructure. You can just
connect your system, stream the data, and we handle all the architecture.
Something that would normally take weeks or months now takes only a few hours.
That's the power of the no-code platform." The Alloy–MongoDB integration
includes bidirectional sync. "Your connection with MongoDB Atlas can go both
ways,” Mojica added. “You can pull data and you can push data. You can do
scheduled workflows once an hour or once a day, make a query, get some data from
MongoDB, check if a record was added, and then send the data to another platform
or destination. The bidirectional sync is really important, because integration
really is the ability to get data, but also push data." Support for startups As
a member of the MongoDB for Startups program, Alloy enjoys access to a wide
range of resources, including free credits to our best-in-class developer data
platform, MongoDB Atlas , and personalized technical advice, among other perks.
Alloy leveraged the program from an early stage, as Mojica explained, "The
credits were very helpful in the beginning, especially when you're in Y
Combinator and don't have a lot of money in the bank. We recently started
getting in touch for support. In fact, just knowing that we have support is very
valuable." Instead of having to build integrations every time, Alloy already has
the infrastructure. You can just connect your system, stream the data, and Alloy
handles all the architecture. Something that would normally take weeks or months
now takes only a few hours. That's the power of the no-code platform. To learn
more about Alloy, check out runalloy.com . Are you part of a startup and
interested in joining the MongoDB for Startups program? Apply now .
August 31, 2022
Applied
LOVISA BERGGREN IS MUCH MORE THAN "JUST AN INTERN"
Lovisa Berggren is a student at Umea University in Sweden and a software
engineering intern based in MongoDB’s Dublin office who is thoroughly enjoying
the hands-on experience her internship on the Cloud API Experience Team has to
offer. Read on for more about the projects Lovisa is working on, the culture at
MongoDB, and why she’s truly happy about her decision to intern at MongoDB.
Sammy Attia: Thanks for taking the time to chat with me today! I know you’re a
software engineering intern on the Cloud API Experience team. Could you tell me
more about the team? Lovisa Berggren: My team is responsible for the MongoDB
Atlas Administration API with projects like API Authentication, API rate
limiting, and API versioning. We are involved in the release and platform
support for Ops Manager, which is specifically the focus of my work this summer.
What projects have you been working on? This summer I am working on a release
tool. Currently this tool has its own repository and uses a Makefile for
building, testing, and execution. My task is to move the code to a monorepo,
restructure it, and change the build tool from Make to Bazel, which is used in
the monorepo. That sounds awesome! Which part are you finding the most
interesting? The most interesting part has been all the things you don't
necessarily learn at university. Usually when you do assignments for a course,
you create your program, see that it runs as expected, and then you forget about
it. Here at MongoDB, I have learned about working with legacy code, maintaining
code, releasing, and testing. Seeing how these things work in a big company is
really interesting and new to me, and so important. I’m glad to hear you are
gaining real world experience. I would love to hear why you decided to join
MongoDB in the first place. Can you share more about your decision-making
process? I had heard about MongoDB and I had also used it myself in coding
projects, so I thought it would be really cool to work here. Also, after
applying I had a great interview process. I was able to meet with many different
people at the company, and all of them were really kind. During the interview
process, I also learned more about the culture at MongoDB, which made it clear
that I wanted to intern here. And has the culture lived up to your expectations?
The culture is amazing. Everybody here is very kind, welcoming, and helpful. I
don't feel as though I'm “just an intern.” I am truly a part of the team and the
company. I have had the chance to get to know a lot of people, both in my team
but also from other teams, which is great. Hear from two-time intern Erin
McNulty about how MongoDB’s engineering culture has enabled her to grow . It’s
probably hard to narrow it down, but what would you say has been your favorite
part of the internship experience? The best part is the people and the culture,
and how they make me feel on a day-to-day basis. I am always excited to go to
work, and I feel appreciated here, which is something I think is very important.
Having a great intern experience is not only about having a fun and interesting
project to work on, but also working in a great environment with people who
support you and share your values. I love that! Thank you for being here this
summer, and for your contributions to MongoDB. It's been amazing to be able to
participate in a great intern program. As a Swede from a relatively small town,
it's also cool to get the opportunity to experience Dublin during the summer.
Interested in opportunities for college students at MongoDB? Find out more .
August 30, 2022
Culture
GROWTH AND OPPORTUNITY: WHY NOW IS A GREAT TIME TO JOIN OUR SALES ECOSYSTEM IN
KOREA
Read in Korean As MongoDB continues to scale, we are expanding our presence in
the Asia-Pacific region. The South Korea market, in particular, is an important
and strategic focus because we anticipate high growth in the region. Below, hear
from members of our sales team in South Korea to learn how they work
cross-functionally to make an impact — and how the opportunity to help build
MongoDB Korea translates to extraordinary career growth. Joe Shin , Regional
Director Over the past few years, MongoDB has grown rapidly because it addresses
the emerging requirements of new applications and can modernize existing
workloads which are struggling with traditional relational databases (RDBMSes).
I've always thought that open source would become the next market trend,
especially when new technologies such as NoSQL replace the limitations of
RDBMSes and dominate the database market. We knew the market opportunity would
be enormous for the MongoDB Korea branch because we know that our Korean
customers would love to receive more active support locally. MongoDB’s
organizational culture is horizontal. People of various positions in various
jobs freely communicate and share opinions. In this horizontal organizational
culture, each team has a clear role and works efficiently through organic
relationships. As a regional director, my role is to drive local sales strategy,
guide and develop our sales team on how to solve complex issues, and communicate
effectively with partners — especially by escalating things when necessary to
help solve problems. As a local leader, I hold myself accountable for embracing
a collaborative environment where everyone cares about each other, one that
encourages effective teamwork and empowers all team members to follow MongoDB’s
corporate values of Build Together, Embrace the Power of Differences, Make It
Matter, Be Intellectually Honest, Own What You Do, and Think Big, Go Far.
MongoDB is at a great spot within the market. We already have hundreds of
customers in the country, including many familiar brands such as KBS , Kakao Pay
, Woowa Brothers , and many others across both traditional organizations and
digital natives. In fact, Woowa Brothers have been users of MongoDB in Korea for
some time and have now gone all in on our developer data platform for their
international expansion into Southeast Asia. Our customer Nod Games is using
MongoDB to transform the gaming industry by leading the move to pay-to-earn
games using blockchain technology. Even with this success, we're still at the
very early stages of a massive shift in technology, and we need to keep finding
and researching our customers’ pain points to deliver them value. The Korean
database market is getting bigger and bigger, and it shows enormous
possibilities. MongoDB Korea is growing so fast that sales reps will have the
opportunity to learn quickly and see the direct impact of their work. Hae Sung
Kim , Strategic Account Director I joined MongoDB as an enterprise account
executive and have been promoted to strategic account director. As an EAE, I
benefited from the detailed and clear MongoDB sales methodology and enablement.
MongoDB has a very passionate and strategic sales culture. There is a focus on
finding the right person who can effectively deliver MongoDB’s value for the
customer’s business. In addition, there is a culture of knowledge sharing across
the entire sales ecosystem, so that you can take best practices from teammates
and apply it within your own accounts. This culture helps strengthen sales
capabilities by making it possible to establish strategies from a customer's
business perspective. I also gathered enormously helpful tips from team sharing,
delivered MongoDB’s value to numerous accounts, successfully completed various
cases (including on premises, cloud, and ISV/OEM). I gained valuable experiences
and recognition. At MongoDB, sales is not only about revenue. You work with
various customer contacts within your accounts, such as developers, operations,
and C-level stakeholders, with dedicated support from all internal functional
departments. At MongoDB, you will have the opportunity to strengthen your sales
capabilities and help a wide range of customers and industries. But more
important and exciting is the communication and collaboration you will have with
passionate global team members. White Moon , Field Marketing Manager I was first
introduced to MongoDB about four years ago. At the time, it was still relatively
new in Korea, but developers were very interested, and it was a promising and
proven solution in the marketplace. When I joined, I was impressed by the
diverse and inclusive organizational culture and how all employees supported one
another. I joined as the first and only female employee, but I always felt that
I was able to speak freely with other members of the team and that I would
receive support whenever it was needed. As a company, MongoDB actively supports
women through initiatives such as the MDBWomen affinity group, coaching and
development for professional and career development, and holding celebrations
for events like International Women’s Day. The global marketing team has also
supported me by helping to ensure my region has everything it needs to
strengthen MongoDB brand awareness and generate strong demand. I often connect
with marketers in other regions to share best practices and learn from their
experiences. Not only has this made me much more strategic, but it also gives me
the opportunity to meet and become friends with people outside of my direct
team. When working with the sales team, I want to be a representative partner of
the Korean region and be a leader who oversees marketing in Korea. I'm not just
an event planner; I'm trying to be the CMO of my region and a business partner
to my regional sales team. Through local programs and account-based marketing
activities, I can support driving new leads and accelerating deals. I’ve always
seen myself as responsible for understanding when and why to do these programs,
and how to ensure the leads make it through the sales funnel and become new
customers. The MongoDB office space in Seoul. Jun Kim , Manager, Solutions
Architecture I joined MongoDB when the Korea branch had just been started. To
me, MongoDB’s document model and sharding capability were really attractive
compared to other databases, and I was impressed by all of the technical
features. I had worked for Oracle as a master sales consultant, and coming to
MongoDB allowed me to gain exciting experiences in many different capacities,
from meeting with developers and DBAs to C-levels. I started as a senior
solutions architect and have since been promoted to a people management role.
MongoDB is a very fast growing company, and I’ve seen my direct impact on the
organization. It is exciting to be a part of scaling our team and MongoDB’s
presence in Korea. I also feel that I’ve been developed and continue to develop
through the support I receive from my peers and leadership. Our team in Korea is
growing quickly, and we have a strong culture of collaborating with one another
and benefiting from each other’s experiences. I am proud of what we have
accomplished so far and look forward to our next phase of growth. Read about
local customers BAEMIN and Nod Games, and find out what the media is saying
about MongoDB in Digital Daily and TechM DataNet . Interested in making an
impact and helping us scale MongoDB Korea? We have several open roles and would
love for you to transform your career with us!
August 29, 2022
Culture
BREAKING THE BIAS: HOW CAN WE GET MORE WOMEN INTO TOP-LEVEL TECH?
As a company committed to building a culture of belonging, MongoDB strives to
attract and retain a diverse workforce. To support this goal, we created
MDBWomen, a community where MongoDB employees identifying as women can seek
support, share experiences, and build connections. MDBWomen is a safe space to
discuss important topics, including how companies and women at those companies
can create opportunities for women to thrive in the technology industry.
Although representation is rising, currently only 26.7% of technologists are
women . And women are leaving the sector at a 45% higher rate than men. How can
we break the bias and encourage more women to join — and stay in — the
technology industry? We posed these questions to women leaders who joined us
March 2022 for MDBWomen’s panel event in celebration of International Women’s
Day (IWD). Though IWD has passed, striving for equity in the workplace is a
topic MDBWomen keeps top of mind year round, so we wanted to reflect on
conversations like the one we hosted with: Shadi Rostami – Senior/Executive VP
of Engineering, Amplitude Hillary McTigue – VP of Engineering, Ticketmaster Jean
Xu – Director of Engineering, Data Security/DLP, Palo Alto Networks Jeanette
Gamble – Global Head of Data & Analytics Infrastructure Technology & Web
Services, Morgan Stanley Harsha Jalihal – Chief People Officer, MongoDB Ksenia
Samokhvalova – Senior Product Designer, MongoDB Ksenia Samokhvalova: Have you
experienced gender-specific challenges or stereotypes during your career? If so,
how have you overcome them? Hillary McTigue: Early on in my career especially,
there were moments where people assumed I wasn’t the technical person in the
room. One thing that I have learned over the years is to own the fact you’re an
engineer. You have something to contribute to the conversation — don’t be afraid
to speak up and use your voice. Jeanette Gamble: There have definitely been
times in my career when I’ve been through uncomfortable things. It’s a powerful
message for a young woman to feel supported and championed, and that’s not the
case in all companies. I was extremely lucky when I joined Morgan Stanley in
2000 because the Head of Technology for Europe was a woman, and she did a lot of
mentoring sessions. Mentorship is the greatest tool we have, and it’s hugely
undervalued. Things I learned from her I still use today and try to pass on.
Shadi Rostami: When your leaders around you don’t look like you, it’s tough. I
think all of us have experienced imposter syndrome at some point. But the most
important thing is to believe in yourself. I was talking to somebody yesterday
and she was telling me that she was having a hard time hiring directors because
people don’t want to report to a female leader. And I told her, “No, stop there.
You’re more than capable.” Jean Xu: A couple of years ago, a friend’s company
wanted her to move up to a management role, and she was really concerned about
the impact it would have on her family. But I assured her it shouldn’t be a
concern. We definitely need women to share similar challenges they’re facing —
support is very important to career advancement. How can we improve the
representation of women in technology? Jeanette Gamble: Retention. We focus so
much on getting women into technology; now we have to pivot and focus on how we
can keep them in technical roles especially past the age of 35. Harsha Jalihal:
I think men have a huge role to play in breaking biases and stereotypes for
women. Women start dropping out of the workforce at a certain point in their
career journey with the pressure of having children, being the primary caregiver
at home, and potentially not having an equal partner in their life to share that
responsibility with. If I reflect on my own life, I wouldn't be where I am today
without the role that the men in my life have played in getting me and keeping
me at this level. Additionally, you can’t be what you can’t see. One of the
biggest barriers to improving representation of women and the workforce in
general is there are not enough role models or inspiration points for younger
women and girls to look up to, be inspired by, and learn from. Hillary McTigue:
Having a manager who is an advocate is essential. It’s very important to
understand your team and what they want in their careers. Don’t assume that
everyone wants the same thing. Shadi Rostami: We all talk about diversity, but
the more important thing is inclusivity. If you create an inclusive environment
where women can speak up, it enables another perspective in the room. All of us
bring such different, vast experiences to the workplace. If we let everybody
find their voice, the brain of the group becomes much bigger than the sum of the
different people. That’s what makes a company successful. How can companies
break the bias surrounding women in technology and enhance gender equality in
the workplace? Jeanette Gamble: Benefits! I have the luxury of working for a
big, global company that puts immense focus into supporting women. But these
changes were only made from people pulling together and being really loud about
what we need to retain women in the workforce. Jean Xu: A few years back, I felt
that as long as I treated everyone fairly, bias wouldn't exist. But that mindset
totally changed after I joined Palo Alto Networks. Our company focuses on
diversity and inclusion. We have recruitment policies for the way we form
interview panels, and inclusion/diversity is measured in our performance review
as well as in the core company values. It’s really helped to change the way I
look at issues attached to diversity and inclusion, and also prevent
unintentional bias from happening. How important is it to break the bias early
in life — and how can we get better at supporting gender equality from a young
age? Harsha Jalihal: I grew up in India, where society was and in some ways is
very patriarchal. If it hadn’t been for my father’s approach to raising me — not
as a boy or girl, but as a human being — I don’t know that I would have
developed the self-confidence I have today. Every opportunity I had to do
something that was against the norm, my father was always there, unconditionally
supporting me. Now I have a son and daughter, and both see that I am in a
relationship of equals. Dad can make French toast and braid hair; Mom can be out
traveling for work. When men lean in at home, it makes it easier for women to
lean in at work. Jeanette Gamble: Parents tend to buy gender specific toys,
games, and clothes. Introducing your daughter to Scratch or Osmo instead of
Princesses and My Little Pony makes a huge difference. I'm passionate about
programs like Girls Who Code . In 10 years, they've introduced technology to
nearly half a million girls in North America, which is phenomenal. They have
completely revolutionized how companies, parents, and schools think about
technology by getting in at the grass roots. Promoting female potential through
high-profile events like International Women’s Day also helps to break biases.
What does IWD mean to you? Jeanette Gamble: To me, International Women's Day is
feeling part of a community coming together to help others rise up. There's a
saying that I think about a lot: “Be your best, not the best.” When you say you
want to be the best at something, someone has to lose for you to succeed.
International Women's Day is really about changing that and being more inclusive
to make everybody feel like they belong. Hillary McTigue: For me, it’s about
empowering yourself. Don't wait for someone to tap you on the shoulder. You have
the opportunity to really take control. Shadi Rostami: The sky’s the limit. I
grew up in Iran in a very patriarchal society. It was a rebellion against the
system to prove that girls can achieve as much as boys. We are very, very
capable and can achieve anything we want. Jean Xu: I'm a mother of two
daughters, so International Women's Day is a constant reminder that women have
been through a lot, and we have achieved a lot. There are still gender
disparities in our society and in the workplace. But I think together we can
make a much better world for future generations. Harsha Jalihal: For me,
International Women’s Day is about breaking the biases and stereotypes that hold
women back from realizing their potential. On a personal note, I think it’s also
a day to celebrate the woman in me and the women in all our lives, because it's
a pretty cool thing to be a woman. We should take a moment to feel proud about
how far we've come. MongoDB values diversity and inclusion . Learn more about
life at MongoDB or browse our open roles across the globe.
August 29, 2022
Culture
DEVELOPMENT, ENABLEMENT, AND CAREER TRANSFORMATION WITH MONGODB’S CORPORATE
SALES TEAM
MongoDB continues to grow our corporate sales team in Europe and the Middle East
(EMEA). MongoDB corporate account executives sell into some of the world's
highest growth and IT-focused companies, with a goal of securing net new
accounts in organizations of up to 1,500 employees. Often working directly with
CTOs, Engineering/IT leaders, and technical end users, our corporate sales team
drives and builds solutions that serve the best interests of our customers to
help them innovate faster than ever before. Hear from two corporate account
executives on our EMEA team to learn more about how they’ve experienced
development, enablement, and career progression during their tenure, and why now
is a perfect time to join our expanding team. Career progression Sophie Gruber ,
Regional Director, Corporate Sales I joined MongoDB in 2019 and was looking for
two things: First, the possibility of merit-based career progression and second,
an uncapped product-market fit. From my initial research and what I learned
throughout the interview process, it became apparent that MongoDB was a place
where I would be guaranteed both of those things and more. I’ve held multiple
roles within MongoDB since I began. I joined the corporate sales organization
after being part of our cloud team. When I joined the corporate team, I had
already been working closely with corporate account executives and understood
their objectives. I received support from all levels, including peers and
top-line management. I’ve recently been promoted to regional director for
corporate sales in DACH (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland). It has been a steep
learning curve, but I’ve received incredible support from all around. Our BDR to
CRO program offers loads of different career progression opportunities, and
management supported me along the way in identifying development areas. MongoDB
offers so many different routes for development and progression; they’re yours
to take and make the most of. For me, the success and excitement I get from my
role is working with companies, being part of their missions, and watching them
come to life in their industries. The moments I’m most proud of are being part
of the MongoDB Excellence Club, an initiative that rewards top sales performers,
for the past two years. This year’s event in Mexico was an incredible week full
of celebrations and learning from top performers around the globe. I believe
that everyone has different motivations throughout their career, but one
constant is the environment they thrive working in. At MongoDB, we truly live
our values and celebrate thinking big and going far. Our culture is the
foundation of everything we do, and even though we work in a competitive field,
collaboration and teamwork are always at the forefront. I’ve met so many amazing
people during my time here and am very proud to be living and building upon
MongoDB’s culture with them. Development and enablement Tyconor Chan , Corporate
Account Executive I joined MongoDB in November 2021 as a corporate Account
Executive, and there were a few key factors that influenced my decision. MongoDB
invests a tremendous amount of effort in your personal and professional
development. It sounds cheesy, but before taking the role I read that MongoDB is
where you come to get your “Masters in Sales.” Having just gone through the bulk
of the COVID-19 pandemic, I was excited to get back to learning. The first time
I met my manager he asked, “So what's next for you?” The constant development
mentality is what really excites me about MongoDB. Then there’s the actual
product. MongoDB is a best-in-class product and the leading NoSQL database that
supports mission-critical applications for some of the world's largest
companies. It satisfies a tremendous variety of use cases in every industry. I
came from a hardware background, so moving to software-based selling was
initially very daunting. However, between team sessions, one-to-one sessions
with my buddy (an experienced rep), and our sales enablement program, my
concerns were quickly put to rest. New hires are enrolled in a two-week upskill
bootcamp that gets you prepped for the role. A few months later, you can refine
your skills in Advanced Sales Training. I’ve had a dream start in terms of
achieving immediate success at MongoDB, getting to work with new and established
companies in the UK and Ireland, and playing a key role in their journey. What I
am most proud of are the relationships I’ve made in the short amount of time
I’ve been here. Hands down, what I enjoy most about working at MongoDB are the
people and the culture. Being able to bounce ideas off of colleagues and
leadership knowing they have your best interests in mind is really encouraging,
especially to someone new to the business, and that’s why I can’t recommend
coming to the corporate sales team enough. Like anything of worth, it’s by no
means an easy role, but if you are willing to set your ego aside, ask for
support, and work hard, you will be a great fit at MongoDB. Do you want to make
an impact and transform your career? Join us at MongoDB — we have several open
roles on our teams across the globe.
August 26, 2022
Culture
DIGITAL UNDERWRITING: RIDING THE INSURANCE TRANSFORMATION WAVE WITH MONGODB
In our previous article about digital underwriting, “ A Digital Transformation
Wave in Insurance ,” we covered the main challenges insurers face when it comes
to streamlining and modernizing their underwriting processes, along with key
areas that can be improved by leveraging the power of data and artificial
intelligence. We analyzed how modern IT trends require a complete redesign of
manual underwriting processes to enable insurers to leverage new market
opportunities and stay relevant in an ever-changing risk landscape. We explored
how the full underwriting workflow — from the intake of new cases to risk
assessment and pricing — can be redesigned to ease the burden on underwriting
teams and enable them to focus on what matters most. In this second article,
we’ll expand on how new technology paradigms can support transformation
initiatives in this space and describe the pivotal role MongoDB plays in
disrupting the industry. The importance of data and new technology paradigms For
digital underwriting transformation initiatives to succeed, organizations must
move away from monolithic applications, where data is siloed and functionality
is fragmented across different technologies. However, as many organizations have
additionally come to realize, lifting and shifting these monolithic applications
to the cloud does not automatically bring them closer to achieving their digital
objectives. Organizations that are successful in their transformation efforts
are increasingly adopting MACH architecture principles to modernize their
application stacks. The acronym stands for Microservices, API-first,
Cloud-based, and Headless, and, combined, those principles enable developers to
leverage best-of-breed technology and build services that can be used across
multiple different business workflows and applications. These principles allow
software delivery teams to reduce the time it takes to deliver new business
features and promote significant reuse and flexibility far beyond the monolithic
applications that pre-date them. From an insurance perspective, this approach
enables underwriting systems to be decoupled into business and capability
domains, each working independently, yet sharing data as part of an event-driven
design and microservices architecture. Often overlooked, shared capability
domains can provide significant value to an organization's business domains, as
seen in the visual below. Figure 1. Key business and capability domains.
Each function of the application should be owned by the team holding expertise
in that particular domain and be loosely coupled with the others. Services can
communicate with each other via APIs, as well as listen for and consume one
another's events. Building a domain-based data modernization strategy can also
enable a phased migration away from legacy systems. This allows for immediate
realization of the organization's digital objectives, without first engaging in
a costly and timely legacy system replacement effort. An event-driven, and
API-enabled architecture allows for real-time data processing, a core component
of digital enablement. Figure 2. Microservices and event-driven
architecture. Read the previous post in this series, " A Digital Transformation
Wave in Insurance ." Decision support services Once monolithic systems are
decomposed into finer-grained domains and services and begin interacting via
APIs and events, it is possible to focus on the most crucial component that
brings all of them together — the decision support domain. Its role is to
streamline and, where possible, automate underwriting and other decision-making
processes that traditionally require heavy administrative and manual work in
order to reduce operational expenses and enable critical underwriting staff to
focus on highest priority work. Effective underwriting processes require pulling
together multiple teams and capability domains (e.g., claim, customer, pricing,
billing, and so forth) to be able to reach a decision on whether to insure a new
customer or define an adequate pricing and coverage model, among other factors.
A decision support engine has the power to fully automate those steps by
automatically triggering workflows based on specific events (e.g., a new claim
is submitted in the system) as part of the event-driven design referenced
earlier to enable real-time decision making. Why MongoDB With the added burden
of integrating and working with various sources of data — from APIs to events to
legacy databases — and doing so in real time, software delivery teams need a
developer data platform that allows them to tame complexity, not increase it.
Refactoring systems that have been around for decades is not an easy feat and
typically results in multi-year transformation initiatives. MongoDB provides
insurers with the same ACID capabilities of relational databases, while
introducing new tools and flexibility to ease transformation by increasing
developer productivity and fully supporting the MACH principles. The MongoDB
application data model MongoDB provides a developer data platform leveraged by
some of the world’s largest insurers. It possesses key capabilities that allow
it to: Integrate legacy siloed data into a new single view. The flexibility of
the document model enables the integration of separate, legacy data stores into
an elegant, single-view data model that reduces rather than increases
complexity. Without the complexities of another canonical, relational model,
application development and data migration efforts are dramatically simplified,
and delivery timelines shortened. Manage the full lifecycle of containerized
applications. MongoDB’s Enterprise Operator for Kubernetes lets you deploy and
manage the full lifecycle of applications and MongoDB clusters from your
Kubernetes environment for a consistent experience regardless of an on-premises,
hybrid, or public cloud topology. Automate workflows, leveraging events in
real-time. MongoDB provides the data persistence at the heart of event-driven
architectures with connectors and tools that make it easy to move data between
systems (e.g., MongoDB Connector for Apache Kafka ), providing a clear
separation between automated underwriting workflows and those requiring manual
intervention. Enable business agility using DevOps methodologies. MongoDB Atlas
, the global cloud database for MongoDB, provides users with quick access to
fully managed and automated databases. This approach allows development teams to
add new microservices and make changes to application components much more
quickly. It also saves a substantial amount of operations effort, since database
administrators are not required in every sprint to make and manage changes. Work
quickly with complex data. Developers can analyze many types of data directly
within the database, using the MongoDB Aggregation Pipeline framework. And, with
the power of Atlas Federation, developers can do this without the need to move
data across systems and complex data warehouse platforms, providing real-time
analytics capabilities that underwriting algorithms require. MongoDB offers a
flexible developer data platform that maps to how developers think and code,
while allowing data governance when needed. It is strongly consistent and comes
with full support for ACID transactions. Figure 3. The MongoDB developer
data platform. The MongoDB developer data platform addresses a range of use
cases without added complexity, including full-text search, support for storing
data at the edge on mobile, data lake, charts, and the ability to deliver
real-time analytics without moving data between systems. It also provides
developers with a powerful yet simplified query interface suitable for a variety
of workloads, enabling polymorphism and idiomatic access. Contact us to find out
more about how the MongoDB developer data platform can help you streamline your
insurance business.
August 25, 2022
Applied
4 WAYS TELCOS DELIVER MISSION-CRITICAL NETWORK PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY
Tech leaders like Google, Apple, and Netflix set a new standard for customer
service. Today’s customers expect intuitive, always-on, seamless service that
challenges telecommunications companies’ network performance and reliability.
This article examines several ways that companies can meet these challenges
through an automated, data-driven approach. How a modern data platform can help
A fully integrated, customer-centric, and data-driven approach to service
delivery and assurance is needed to remain competitive. Modern
telecommunications enterprises are tackling this problem by investing in areas
like AI and machine learning, for example, which can help them identify
correlations between disparate, diverse sources of data and automate end-to-end
network operations, including: Network security Fraud mitigation Network
optimization Customer experience Furthermore, by adopting a modern data
platform, companies can easily answer questions, such as the following, that are
nearly impossible to resolve when relying on legacy technology: Is an event
likely to have a customer impact? Are customer-facing service SLAs being met?
Where should cell sites be placed for maximum ROI? Is new equipment deployed and
configured correctly? MongoDB’s developer data platform can help companies
provide the necessary performance and reliability to meet customers’
expectations in four key areas: reducing data complexity, service assurance
automation, network intelligence and automation, and TM Forum Open APIs.
Reducing data complexity One recent study found that data scientists spend about
45% of their time loading and cleansing data . For a true impact to your
organization, you need to free up that time to enable data scientists to focus
on mission-critical projects and innovation. Additionally, architectural
complexity, with bolted-on solutions and legacy technology, prevents you from
harnessing your data and having a true impact on network performance and
reliability. MongoDB’s developer data platform solves the great complexity
problem by supporting a diverse range of workloads from a single data platform.
Reducing the channels for data flow allows companies to establish a single
source of truth, achieve a customer-centric approach that is critical for
competitive advantage, and increase service assurance. Figure 1. MongoDB’s
developer data platform reduces complexity in telecommunications workloads,
resulting in more reliable network service for customers. With continuous uptime
and advanced automation, MongoDB’s developer data platform ensures performance,
no matter the scale. Service assurance automation In telecommunications,
always-on, always-available service both for the end user and internal IT teams
is critical. While outdated service assurance processes may have been viable
decades ago, the volume of data and number of users have grown exponentially,
making manually intensive processes of the past no longer possible. This volume
increase will continue to stress existing business support systems, and without
modernization, it will hamper the development of new revenue streams. Moving
from a reactive to proactive and then predictive model, as shown in Figure 2,
will enhance service assurance and enable organizations to meet the expectations
of the digital-native customer. Figure 2. The transition from a reactive to
proactive to predictive data model opens up new opportunities to use innovative
technologies like artificial intelligence. Network intelligence and automation
Consider the essential task of configuration and management of radio access
networks. On a daily basis, engineers change the angles of antenna towers, the
configuration of the radio, the nearest neighbor relations, and other events
your system tracks and manages. With an intuitive developer data platform, any
change in the configuration is saved in the data mediation layer (DML) for
anyone to see and track, making it easy for engineers to go to the DML to check
the configuration for a particular tower. Information that was previously
captured in one snapshot per day is now propagated in real time. Another example
— intent-based automation — abstracts the complexity of underlying
software-defined networking components by allowing intent to be specified and by
providing automatic translation. This type of automation allows teams to process
intent generated either by end user activity or via service assurance processes,
and that intent is translated into the underlying network state. Network events
determine whether the network is in the desired, stable state, and that
unintended states are addressed via automation, potentially using TM Forum
Network-as-a-Service APIs. TM Forum Open APIs The TM Forum (TMF) is an alliance
of more than 850 companies that accelerates digital innovation through its TMF
Open APIs, which provide a standard interface for the exchange of different
telco data models. The use of TMF Open APIs ranges from providers of
off-the-shelf software to proprietary developments of the largest
telecommunications providers. In working with many of the world’s largest
communication service providers (CSPs) and their related software provider
ecosystems, MongoDB has seen a significant number of organizations leverage
these APIs to develop new microservices in days, rather than weeks or months.
Through exposing common interfaces, CSPs are able to adopt a modular
architecture made up of best-of-breed components (either internally or
externally developed) while minimizing the time, effort, and cost required to
integrate them. The TMF Network-as-a-Service APIs, in particular, hold
significant potential for network automation. This API component suite supports
a set of operational domains exposing and managing network services. The
abstraction layer between network automation tooling and the underlying network
infrastructure provides a flexible, modular architecture. Network optimization
is vital to the survival of telcos in today’s competitive market. However, with
a modern developer data platform underpinning your network, you’ll be equipped
to meet and exceed customer expectations. Read our ebook to learn more about
implementing TM Forum Open APIs with MongoDB .
August 25, 2022
Applied
7 WAYS TO REDUCE YOUR DATABASE'S CARBON FOOTPRINT
In his technology predictions for 2022 , Werner Vogels, VP and CTO of Amazon,
reminded the industry that sustainability is no longer a secondary consideration
— nor something someone else is responsible for. “As developers, we are trained
to think about how to optimize our architectures for factors like security,
performance, reliability, and cost,” he wrote. “In 2022, you can add
sustainability to that list. What we will begin to see in the coming years is
developers taking an active role in building sustainability-conscious
architectures that take into account not just the problems they are solving, but
the planet as well.” Vogels’s vision makes it clear that there is a difference
between how we measure the efficiency of databases and, perhaps, how we should.
In this article, we’ll look at several steps organizations can take to reduce
the carbon footprint of their databases. It all starts with the cloud. Move off
premises Migrating workloads to a public cloud creates an instant return on
sustainability efforts, with an average 84% immediate reduction in carbon
emissions as a result. This reduction results from a combination of factors,
including the fact that cloud data centers use less physical space and resources
than those on-premises; the use of more efficient servers and higher server
usage; and the fact that public cloud providers are themselves committed to
sustainable infrastructure and a reduced carbon footprint, which enhances and
supports their customers’ efforts as well. For example, the three major public
cloud providers have made the following commitments: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
is committed to being powered with 100% renewable energy by 2025 and has pledged
to be carbon neutral by 2040 across all Amazon properties. Microsoft Azure has
also pledged to be completely powered by renewable energy by 2025 and is
committed to being water-positive and zero-waste by 2030. Google Cloud already
boasts the use of 100% renewable energy in all regions, with a goal to use only
carbon-free energy by 2030. Consider serverless Businesses can amplify that
carbon reduction by selecting a database platform that aligns with their energy
goals. MongoDB is currently in 80-plus regions, with 12 of those regions being
powered by renewable energy as well as being low-carbon and/or zero-waste.
Furthermore, MongoDB Atlas Serverless instances are optimized to use the
underlying infrastructure — RAM, CPU, disks, network bandwidth — to its maximum
before consuming additional cloud resources. Currently, 60% of organizations
globally have yet to adopt any serverless technology; however, pushing to
serverless not only helps to reduce carbon footprint but also can provide a
competitive advantage. Consolidate your platform Databases require management on
many fronts, from transactional data and relational data to search, analytics,
graph use cases, time series, and more. Each of these facets is frequently
handled in its own separate database, necessitating management, monitoring, and
resources. Not only is this a technical pain point, but it can also affect the
environmental goals of an organization and its carbon footprint overall. To
start, fewer workloads result in a lower carbon emission total. Thus, simply
paring down the number of databases used is an easy way to reduce the
consumption of resources and associated carbon emissions. MongoDB Atlas brings
all of those requirements into a single, consolidated database platform that
solves for disparate and siloed databases and reduces resources and consumption.
Strategize around prevention The greenest energy is the energy that is never
used in the first place. Toward that end, organizations can work to shift their
architectural strategy to be more mindful of carbon and energy considerations,
and adjustments can be made to reduce usage without affecting performance. For
example, about 40% of instances are at least one size larger than needed .
Businesses can reduce such excess consumption by avoiding over-provisioned
databases. This change can be done easily through automatic scaling with MongoDB
Atlas cluster and storage auto-scaling, as well as with Atlas Triggers , which
allows users to schedule scaling events. Another consideration is the
consumption of non-production environments. Currently, more than 44% of total
compute resources are being used in non-production environments like dev,
testing, staging, and pre-production. This consumption typically does not occur
outside of work hours, and it’s easy to pause these resources outside of peak
hours in Atlas, either on-demand or with an Atlas Trigger. Continue to iterate
These major adjustments to the structure of your database architecture represent
impactful steps toward creating a sustainable database, but there are many, more
granular ways to improve database technology and better align with environmental
goals. Implementing smaller changes will chip away at carbon emissions and
create significant impact over time. Such easy-to-execute suggestions include
the following: Consider the impact of data transfer over longer distances and
find new regions to house data. Determine the proper location of data and
leverage the flexibility to deploy in any region, which grants more control over
replication of data. Use Atlas Global Clusters to ensure that data stays within
a defined geography, thereby minimizing the infrastructure required to deploy a
globally distributed application. Employ Atlas Data Federation to minimize the
need to replicate data between cloud object storage and Atlas by allowing users
to query both sources from a single interface. Leverage Atlas Analytics Nodes to
offload workloads to separate nodes. And note that, with MongoDB 6.0 , you can
manually size those nodes to trim even more resources. Use analytic nodes that
are deployed in more environmentally sustainable regions. Leverage Atlas’s many
dashboards and alerts to be proactively notified when system resources are
rising beyond acceptable thresholds. Introduce an “eco mode” in your apps,
giving users the ability to agree to potentially lower response times in
exchange for a positive environmental impact. Avoid peak times for predictable
workloads; schedule these during a time that will not drive over-consumption.
Use data tiering; users can automate data lifecycles using Atlas Online Archive
and reduce exhaustion of resources. Don't wait The time to act is now. Studies
estimate that between 2% and 4% of global emissions come from the information
and communications technology industry — about the same as from aviation. Much
of that impact is concentrated in data centers, which consume 10 times to 50
times the energy per square foot compared to a typical office building. With
every day that businesses do not improve their carbon footprint, the
environmental problem gets worse. For example, IDC found that the number of data
centers worldwide has grown from 500,000 in 2012 to more than 8 million today.
And data itself is exploding, with 2.5 quintillion new bytes of data created
daily . Because of this, the amount of energy used by data centers will continue
to double every four years, meaning data centers have the fastest-growing carbon
footprint of any area within the technology industry sector. Organizations need
a proper database framework to combat these negative environmental trends
without creating additional and unnecessary carbon emissions that add to the
global warming crisis. As a developer data platform, MongoDB provides businesses
with the database architecture to reduce consumption of resources, and MongoDB
Atlas offers additional features to enhance carbon reduction efforts. Get
inspired Businesses are a strong lever for change in the world. When it comes to
carbon reduction, MongoDB is committed to creating sustainable and lean data
architectures, both internally and for customers. Check out these three stories
of companies that have taken incredible strides to curtail their carbon impact.
Business leaders can all be inspired by and learn from each other to make
changes and collectively benefit the Earth and future generations. Learn about
this and more from MongoDB Solutions Architect, Snehal Bhatia’s, presentation on
Designing a Sustainable Architecture from MongoDB World 2022 . .
August 24, 2022
Applied
MIGRATING TO THE CLOUD ISN'T AS EASY AS MOST PEOPLE THINK: A CONVERSATION WITH
MARK PORTER AND ACCENTURE’S MICHAEL LJUNG
Moving away from a legacy relational database and developing a strategy around
your cloud journey can unlock value that is otherwise limited without a
streamlined, simplified, and modernized cloud architecture. But that outcome is
by no means guaranteed. Although the journey to the cloud is often painted as an
easy path to simplicity, agility, and scalability, the quickest way to migrate,
the lift-and-shift approach , can encourage organizations to arrive to the
public cloud and begin deploying new software and resources without considering
the complexity they can create — and without having solved for architectural
considerations prior to migration. Think about packing for a big move. It’s a
best practice to purge unnecessary items, clean, and organize, so you arrive at
your new home with a better understanding of what you need, what you own, and
how useful those items will be in your new place. Likewise, considerations
around applications and database architectures are best addressed prior to
migration. Without a proper migration strategy in place, businesses arrive in
the cloud with the same complex architecture, an excessive amount of siloed
data, and the weight of unnecessary applications. It’s the same organization
with the same operations, only located in a new landscape. If your business is
currently frustrated by the course corrections needed after a migration,
partners like Accenture and MongoDB can help organize your cloud environment and
your database architecture. MongoDB CTO Mark Porter recently sat down with
Michael Ljung , Accenture’s global engineering lead, to discuss the benefits of
cloud migration — and to get real about the challenges. According to Ljung,
there are real and immediate benefits to migrating. For example, a study by
Accenture found that customers were seeing a 10% cost savings stemming from
migrating applications in a lift-and-shift fashion. But that number is small
compared to the potential benefits of the cloud. Ljung says that it’s also
important to replace the mindset of simple migration as the ultimate goal and to
focus more on modernization, co-creating, innovating, and differentiating. This
means thinking of the cloud in a new way. Migration is the start of a journey,
not the final destination. It means refactoring, repurposing, replacing, or
retiring applications altogether when necessary. This mentality also applies to
database architectures in the cloud; many companies believe they can move their
relational database to the cloud and database operations will automatically
improve in terms of productivity. This is not realistic, and not the mindset for
driving the best database strategy. Accenture helps client organizations assess
their current cloud state and implement their MAGI methodology —that is, to
modernize, accelerate, grow, and innovate. Learn more about modernizing your
apps with MongoDB before beginning a cloud migration.
August 22, 2022
Applied
MONGODB AND IONOS: HELPING EUROPEAN ORGANIZATIONS IN REGULATED INDUSTRIES MOVE
TO THE CLOUD
As MongoDB continues to grow as a company, we remain focused on understanding
our customers’ unique needs based on their industry and region, among other
factors. With this in mind, we are excited to partner with German cloud provider
IONOS to help European organizations in regulated industries harness the power
of their data to build first-rate applications that also align with security,
compliance, and sovereignty requirements. "We want to offer our customers the
opportunity to use best-in-class solutions,” said IONOS chief customer officer
Martin Endreß about MongoDB becoming part of IONOS’s database-as-a-service
offering. “With MongoDB, we are now integrating with the global leader in the
NoSQL segment,” he said. “In addition, our companies share fundamental values
such as a commitment to full data portability and a rejection of vendor
lock-in." With more than 100K servers across 16 data centers, IONOS has a strong
footprint in the public sector and other industries where cloud usage is
constrained by compliance or data sovereignty needs. Now IONOS customers can
drive application innovation in the cloud using MongoDB’s developer data
platform while keeping control of their data, aligning with the strongest
initiatives in digital sovereignty. The popularity and promise of cloud
computing has led an ever-increasing number of businesses to shift their
infrastructures and software, including databases, to managed services, and
highly regulated industries are no different. Compliance, security, and
innovation need not be at odds with each other. Working together, MongoDB and
IONOS provide developers with a platform that lets them build, deploy, and run
applications securely. MongoDB and IONOS are working closely to develop this new
partnership — which is expected to be on offer in fall 2022 — and support
customers during implementation. Both Enterprise Advanced and Community versions
of MongoDB will be available with IONOS. Learn more about finding a MongoDB
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August 18, 2022
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HOW TRUST AND COLLABORATION ARE HELPING INTERN ERIN MCNULTY TAKE ON NEW
CHALLENGES
Erin McNulty, a rising senior at Columbia University, is working as a software
engineering intern in MongoDB’s New York City office. After interning at MongoDB
during the summer of 2021, Erin returned this year to take on a new challenge on
a new team — and a new programming language. Read on for more about Erin’s
experience and how MongoDB’s engineering culture has enabled her to grow. Sammy
Attia: Welcome back, Erin! I know this is your second summer internship at
MongoDB. Can you share a bit about why you decided to join MongoDB in the first
place and why you decided to come back? MongoDB intern Erin McNulty Erin
McNulty: The first time I chose MongoDB, it was because throughout my interview
process, I could tell that MongoDB really valued interns’ growth, so I felt like
spending my summer here would be a really good investment. I knew that at
MongoDB, I would have a meaningful project that truly helped me grow and would
make an impact at the company. I also really enjoy the culture of the New York
City technology scene, so I was really excited to receive an offer from a
company that was created and headquartered in NYC. When I was deciding to come
back to MongoDB the second time, I really prioritized working at a place that
would let me explore different types of software engineering because I wanted to
make the switch from web programming to systems programming. I knew that
MongoDB’s supportive, learning-oriented environment would allow me to take that
risk of trying something new. In addition, I have become really interested in
database technology and took a few classes during my junior year, so I wanted to
put that knowledge to use on the server team. It’s great to hear that you are
able to explore different types of programming as a MongoDB intern. What does
the service architecture team do? My team is responsible for building the “glue”
that holds different components of the MongoDB server together. We build
internal APIs that simplify intra- and inter-process communication within
MongoDB deployments. In practice, this looks like building a lot of libraries
that make networking, asynchronous programming, and remote command execution
simple for replication, sharding, and other server teams to use. I have really
enjoyed working on this team, because our job is basically to write clean,
reusable code that makes other developers’ lives easier. I find it really
satisfying to refactor messy, one-off pieces of code to use our libraries
instead. Considering that you’re a two-time intern, what is your favorite part
about MongoDB’s internship program? Interns are given a lot of trust at MongoDB,
which allows us to not only learn technical skills, but also develop our working
styles and take risks during the internship. As the summer has progressed, I
have been given more and more trust in terms of designing my own solutions to
issues without obvious solutions. Even if I make a decision that might not be
the best way to solve the problem, I am given the space to discover and correct
that on my own. Because of this, I feel like the MongoDB internship program has
helped me grow as an engineer who is responsible for design and execution, not
just as somebody who writes code that I am told to write. In addition, the
internship has allowed me to explore different aspects of MongoDB through
reading documentation from other teams. I’ve also had the opportunity to have
coffee chats with other engineers and look through the codebase overall. This
makes me feel like I am really valued as a growing engineer, rather than just
somebody who is around to do some extra work for the summer. It sounds as though
you’re really enjoying our strong engineering culture and are taking advantage
of the resources we provide to interns at MongoDB. Could you speak a little more
about the overall culture? The first thing that comes to mind when thinking
about MongoDB’s culture is collaboration. Curiosity and intellectual humility
are cornerstones of our engineering culture, and that leads to really productive
engineering. When discussing technical decisions within my team, it is very
common to hear, “I thought X, but after listening to you walk through your
thinking, I am leaning toward Y.” The culture makes it feel like everyone can
contribute, and that every idea is worth hearing because it will be given a fair
shot. I also really like the intellectual curiosity of MongoDB engineers. It
seems that everyone has a little side interest in another team’s work, and you
frequently hear engineers ask each other questions about the inner workings of
their projects. It seems that you've really embraced one of our most important
company values, "build together." Do you have any advice for students who might
be considering interning at MongoDB? I would encourage students considering a
MongoDB internship to try new things when choosing their teams for the summer.
The first summer I was here, I wanted to stick with what I knew by working on a
team that used React and Java. This summer, I had to learn an entirely new
language, C++, in order to work on my team, and I think that I have grown so
much through this experience of trying something new in my internship.
Interested in opportunities for college students at MongoDB? Find out more .
August 17, 2022
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