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MongoDB $weeklyUpdate #122 (June 30, 2023): Databricks, Change Streams, & Terraform

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Featured Post

How to Leverage an Event-Driven Architecture with MongoDB and Databricks by Francesco Baldissera

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Follow along with this tutorial to get a detailed view of how to leverage MongoDB Atlas App Services in addition to Databricks model building and deployment capabilities to fuel data-driven strategies with real-time events data.

Other Shoutouts

How to Do Semantic Search in MongoDB Using Atlas Vector Search by Benjamin Flast

We're pleased to announce the release of the MongoDB C Driver (libmongoc) 1.24.0 and C++ Driver (mongocxx) 3.8.0 with support for MongoDB 7.0 and a host of new security features. Check out the release notes for more details:

🗓️ Mark Your Calendars

Every month, all across the globe, we organize, attend, speak at, and sponsor events, meetups, and shindigs to bring the DevRel community together. Here’s what we’ve got cooking:

Tel Aviv MUG: July 4th 2023, 7:30am – 10:00am, (GMT-07:00) Pacific Time
Frankfurt MUG: July 5th 2023, 9:00am – 11:00am, (GMT-07:00) Pacific Time
Seville MUG: July 12th 2023, 10:00am – 11:30am, (GMT-07:00) Pacific Time
India vMUG: July 14th 2023, 10:00pm – July 15th 2023, 1:30am, (GMT-07:00) Pacific Time
Aba MUG: July 15th 2023, 3:00am, (GMT-07:00) Pacific Time
Auckland MUG: July 18th 2023, 10:00pm – July 19th 2023, 12:30am, (GMT-07:00) Pacific Time
Nebraska.Code(): Jul 19, 2023 - Jul 21, 2023

.local NYC was last week and what an event it was! We’re so grateful to have gotten to connect with so many of you, whether it was in-person or virtually. If you want to catch up on some of what went down, we created a page on Developer Center where you can access a bunch of helpful resources.

We recently had a MUG in Rome, led by Cesare Laurenziello. The session was on the raft consensus algorithm and the difference from MongoDB’s primary election.

Rome MUG

Additionally, we met up in Bangalore, thanks to our MUG leaders Darshan Jayarama and Pallaav Sethi. Naveen Kumar delivered a torrent of game-changing ideas on how to leverage AWS Cloud Formation to spin up MongoDB replication in Atlas. Megha Arora did a deep dive into MongoDB Atlas authentication and IAM. Babu Srinivasan spoke on integrating MongoDB Atlas with Amazon SageMaker. And Jones Zachariah Noel N and Darshan gave an interactive presentation on MongoDB Change Streams and Amazon Kinesis.

Bangalore MUG

Bangalore MUG

Lastly, we made our way to Jakarta. Many thanks to our speaker, Hendri Tjiptowibowo.

Jakarta MUG

From CAP, Community Champion Justin Lee demoed Morphia, the Java ODM for MongoDB, at the Developer Community Booth at .local NYC.

If you’re attending DevBcn next week, check out Community Champion Hans-Peter Grahsl's talk, A Monolith on the Dissecting Table: The Strangler Fig Pattern in Action. The demo will showcase MongoDB.

Lastly, Community Enthusiast and MUG Leader Sumanta Mukhopadhyay shares a step-by-step guide for deploying a MongoDB cluster using Terraform.

MongoDB is heading out on a world tour to bring the best, most relevant content directly to you! Join us to connect with MongoDB experts, meet fellow users building the next big thing, and be among the first to hear the latest announcements. Register now.

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🎙️ Stop, Collaborate, and Listen

If reading’s not your jam, you might love catching up on our podcast episodes with @mlynn. He talks to Sean Carroll and Cian Walsh about the Queer Collective, MongoDB's affinity group for the LGBTQIA+ community, and the importance of allyship and promoting inclusion in the workplace, specifically within the LGBTQIA+ community.

Not listening on Spotify? We got you! We're also on Apple Podcasts, PlayerFM, Podtail, and Listen Notes. (We’d be forever grateful if you left us a review.)

Have you visited our YouTube channel lately? We have a podcast on MongoDB TV where we sit down with David Neal, a Principal Developer Advocate for Pluralsight, and discuss visual storytelling.

Additionally on YouTube, we live streamed to build an awesome game demo you can clone and deploy yourself with MongoDB and AWS. Head on over and check out the replay.

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