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Ken W Alger

Ken has a long history around computers starting with early Commodore PETs and VIC-20s. He is a MongoDB Certified Developer and lives in Oregon with his wife and three children. You can find him most places online @kenwalger

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BSON Data Types - ObjectId

BSON Data Types - ObjectId

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Building with Patterns: A Summary

Building with Patterns: A Summary

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MongoDB Schema Design Patterns – Attribute

MongoDB Schema Design Patterns – Attribute

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MongoDB Schema Design Patterns – Polymorphic

MongoDB Schema Design Patterns – Polymorphic

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MongoDB’s BI Connector: The Smart Connector for Business Intelligence

MongoDB’s BI Connector: The Smart Connector for Business Intelligence

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MongoDB Atlas Data Explorer

MongoDB Atlas Data Explorer

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Reducing the Need for ETL with MongoDB Charts

Reducing the Need for ETL with MongoDB Charts

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Visualizing Your Data With MongoDB Charts

Visualizing Your Data With MongoDB Charts

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MongoDB World 2018 a Review and Retrospective

MongoDB World 2018 a Review and Retrospective

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New R Driver Option in MongoDB 3.6

New R Driver Option in MongoDB 3.6

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Book Review: The Little Mongo DB Schema Design Book

Book Review: The Little Mongo DB Schema Design Book

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Schema Validation in MongoDB 3.6

Schema Validation in MongoDB 3.6

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MongoDB Stitch Tutorial

MongoDB Stitch Tutorial

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Retryable Writes in MongoDB

Retryable Writes in MongoDB

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Change Streams, Coming Soon in MongoDB 3.6

Change Streams, Coming Soon in MongoDB 3.6

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Using R with MongoDB

Using R with MongoDB

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Big Data and NoSQL: A Great Coupling

Big Data and NoSQL: A Great Coupling

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MongoDB.local San Francisco Recap

MongoDB.local San Francisco Recap

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Storing Documents in a MongoDB Database?

Storing Documents in a MongoDB Database?

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Performing joins in MongoDB with $lookup

Performing joins in MongoDB with $lookup

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Schema Design Considerations in MongoDB

Schema Design Considerations in MongoDB

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Data Durability in MongoDB

Data Durability in MongoDB

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MongoDB Plugin for PyCharm

MongoDB Plugin for PyCharm

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MongoDB Performance Issues - Fact or Fiction

MongoDB Performance Issues - Fact or Fiction

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Book Review: The Complete Software Developer’s Career Guide

Book Review: The Complete Software Developer’s Career Guide

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MongoDB Storage Engine Journaling

MongoDB Storage Engine Journaling

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Monetary Data Type Storage in MongoDB

Monetary Data Type Storage in MongoDB

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A review of the LoPy microcontroller

A review of the LoPy microcontroller

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Overview of MongoDB's BaaS offering: MongoDB Stitch

Overview of MongoDB's BaaS offering: MongoDB Stitch

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IoT Security with SSL/TLS in MicroPython

IoT Security with SSL/TLS in MicroPython

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Importing data with mongoimport

Importing data with mongoimport

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MicroPython Temperature Sensor

MicroPython Temperature Sensor

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MongoDB Horizontal Scaling through Sharding

MongoDB Horizontal Scaling through Sharding

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Choosing a good Shard Key in MongoDB

Choosing a good Shard Key in MongoDB

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Overview of the MQTT Protocol

Overview of the MQTT Protocol

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MongoDB explain() explained

MongoDB explain() explained

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MicroPython's WebREPL on the ESP8266

MicroPython's WebREPL on the ESP8266

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Why NoSQL, and what are some of the options?

Why NoSQL, and what are some of the options?

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MicroPython and the NodeMCU ESP8266

MicroPython and the NodeMCU ESP8266

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New version... new features

New version... new features

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An Overview of MicroPython

An Overview of MicroPython

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Modeling your Data with Documents

Modeling your Data with Documents

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MongoDB Compass: An Overview

MongoDB Compass: An Overview

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Indexing in MongoDB

Indexing in MongoDB

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