About the author
Ken W Alger
@kenwalger
Developer educator and advocate who still ships code. 15 years teaching developers at MongoDB, Heroku, Cisco, and Treehouse. Now writing about AI-assisted development, agent memory, and provenance.
Oregon
Nov 15 '17
MongoDB Stitch Tutorial
I have talked about MongoDB‘s Backend as a Service (BaaS) Stitch previously. In this post, let’s take...
Nov 10 '17
Retryable Writes in MongoDB
MongoDB 3.4 offered some great new features. MongoDB version 3.6 is quickly app...
Nov 9 '17
Change Streams, Coming Soon in MongoDB 3.6
Gone are the days when expectations of information were not instantaneous acces...
Oct 28 '17
Using R with MongoDB
The R programming language is a powerful language used for statistical computing. When working with...
Oct 13 '17
Big Data and NoSQL: A Great Coupling
NoSQL is a great fit for Big Data storage. Let's examine what Big Data is and why NoSQL is a great tool to use to store this data.
Nov 9 '17
MongoDB.local San Francisco Recap
On 12 October 2017 MongoDB kicked off a new series of events. I was fortunate t...
Nov 9 '17
Storing Documents in a MongoDB Database?
MongoDB is considered a document database. As happens from time to time in the ...
Nov 9 '17
Performing joins in MongoDB with $lookup
Eventually, it seems, looking up data in multiple MongoDB collections at the sa...
Nov 9 '17
Schema Design Considerations in MongoDB
I’ve previously touched on some of the benefits and a few examples of how to do...
Aug 25 '17
Data Durability in MongoDB
Making sure we have data durability in our applications is an important aspect of any application design. Let's take a look at how we can do so in MongoDB.
Aug 19 '17
MongoDB Plugin for PyCharm
The PyCharm IDE is a great tool for developing in the Python programming language. In this post let's look at the MongoDB Plugin tool.
Aug 3 '17
MongoDB Performance Issues - Fact or Fiction
MongoDB has taken some publicity hits from performance issues in previous versions. This post will look at performance enhancements of newer versions.