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 25 '19
BSON Data Types - ObjectId
MongoDB provides an automatic unique identifier for the _id field in the form of an ObjectId data type.
Nov 25 '19
Building with Patterns: A Summary
As we wrap up the Building with Patterns series, it’s a good opportunity to recap...
Feb 10 '19
MongoDB Schema Design Patterns – Attribute
Welcome back to the MongoDB Schema Design Patterns series. Last time we looked ...
Feb 10 '19
MongoDB Schema Design Patterns – Polymorphic
One frequently asked question when it comes to MongoDB is “How do I structure m...
Feb 10 '19
MongoDB’s BI Connector: The Smart Connector for Business Intelligence
In today’s world, data is being produced and stored all around us. Businesses l...
Feb 10 '19
MongoDB Atlas Data Explorer
At a recent MongoDB .local Chicago event, MongoDB CTO and Co-Founder, Eliot Hor...
Feb 10 '19
Reducing the Need for ETL with MongoDB Charts
Databases as we know them have been around for over 40 years. When they first c...
Feb 10 '19
Visualizing Your Data With MongoDB Charts
Having data stored in a database is practically a given for today’s businesses....
Jul 7 '18
MongoDB World 2018 a Review and Retrospective
Every year MongoDB hosts a conference called MongoDB World. 2018 saw the conference return to New...
Jul 7 '18
New R Driver Option in MongoDB 3.6
In a previous post, I discussed some options for using MongoDB with the R Langu...
Dec 26 '17
Book Review: The Little Mongo DB Schema Design Book
I mentioned in a previous post on Schema Design I mentioned a book on the subje...
Nov 28 '17
Schema Validation in MongoDB 3.6
MongoDB 3.6 brings lots of great new features with the new release. I’ve alread...