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Percona XtraDB and MongoDB Operators for Kubernetes
Percona announced the release of Percona Kubernetes Operator for XtraDB and Percona Server for MongoDB. Percona, a database software company, designed the XtraDB and MongoDB operators to remove the burden of repetitive tasks and provide consistency and reliability in a Kubernetes environment.
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Ts.ED Provides TypeScript Framework Leveraging Express and Decorators
Ts.ED provides a server-side TypeScript framework on top of Node.js and Express. The framework provides classes and decorators to simplify common server-side patterns, and offers integration with many other projects including TypeORM, Swagger, GraphQL, AJV, Passport.js, and Socket.io, among others.
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AWS Launches New Document-Oriented Database Compatible with MongoDB
AWS just released their 10th database service (15th, if you count each engine offered in the relational database services). This one, called Amazon DocumentDB, stores semi-structured data inside a scalable, highly-available managed service. While offering a MongoDB-compatible API, DocumentDB is not running MongoDB software, which caused hand-wringing among some tech watchers.
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The Guardian’s Migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS
The Guardian migrated their CMS’s datastore in 2018 from a self-managed MongoDB cluster to PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS for a fully managed solution. The team did an API-based migration without any downtime.
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Microsoft Announces the Availability of the MongoDB Atlas Free Tier on Azure
Microsoft announced the usage of MongoDB Atlas for free on Microsoft Azure. A free tier known as M0 is available on Azure, which grants users 512 MB of storage to allow learning MongoDB, prototyping, and early development.
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How Coinbase Handled Scaling Challenges on Their Cryptocurrency Trading Platform
Coinbase, a digital currency exchange, faced scaling challenges on their platform during the 2017 cryptocurrency boom. The engineering team focused on upgrading and optimizing MongoDB, traffic segregation for hotspots to resolve them, and building capture and replay tools to prepare for future surges.
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MongoDB 4.0 Released with Support for Multi-Document ACID Transactions
MongoDB recently announced the latest version 4.0 of the popular NoSQL database. Undoubtedly, the major feature of this announcement is the support for multi-document ACID transactions. MongoDB Stitch, MongoDB Mobile and Mobile Sync, new type conversions in aggregation pipeline and Kubernetes integration are just some of the features of the new version.
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MongoDB Database Tool, dbKoda, Offers Enhanced User Experience and Performance Lab in Version 1.0
Less than a year after its initial release, Southbank Software recently released a milestone version 1.0 of their flagship product, dbKoda, an open source database development tool for MongoDB. Based on user feedback, the user interface was redesigned to include a variety of new features. Guy Harrison, CTO at Southbank Software, spoke to InfoQ about this latest release.
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Studio 3T: SQL Exploration for MongoDB
Studio 3T offers an SQL-based user interface for MongoDB. This includes in-place data editing, query performance information, and a SQL to code converter for JavaScript (node.JS), Java, Python, and C#.
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Microsoft Announces a Public Preview of the MongoDB Aggregation Feature in Azure Cosmos DB
Last November Microsoft announced more capabilities for the support of MongoDB in Azure Cosmos DB. With the deployment of the latest version of the Cosmos DB service, Microsoft included a preview of MongoDB aggregation pipeline support, enabling developers to create more sophisticated queries and manipulate data by combining multiple aggregation ‘stages.’
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Microsoft Directly Challenges MongoDB and Cassandra with Cosmos DB
The term “Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish” is often thrown about whenever someone is upset with Microsoft. Superficially it describes any attempt by a technology company to attract users of a competitor’s product, but the actual strategy is more complicated than that. In this report will use Azure Cosmos DB to illustrate the concept.
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MongoDB 4.0 to Include Multi-Document Transactions
Since MongoDB acquired WiredTiger and their relational database storage engine, technologists have been speculating on when MongoDB would support multi-document transactions. With this week’s announcement, the expectation is that they’ll be ready this summer as part of MongoDB 4.0.
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Southbank Software Introduces dbKoda, an Open Source Database Development Tool for MongoDB
Southbank Software recently released its initial offering of dbKoda version 0.6.0, an open source MongoDB development tool written entirely in JavaScript. Guy Harrison, CTO at Southbank Software spoke to InfoQ about dbKoda.
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Building a Scalable Minimum Viable Product
Scalability should be considered when developing a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). An MVP needs to be technically scalable and you need to have a plan on how to scale quickly when your MVP attracts many users and becomes successful. Knowing your possible performance bottlenecks and using common sense while developing your MVP will get you very far, says Erik Duindam, CTO at Unboxd.
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Meteor 1.4 Release Updates Node and MongoDB
Version 1.4 of Meteor has been released, with major updates to Node and MongoDB. Zoltan Olah, Meteor's director of customer success, said the release "focuses on long term stability for the platform, continues our work to align Meteor with the wider JavaScript ecosystem, and positions us to work closer with the community than ever before."