👋 Hi everyone!

Welcome to MongoDB $weeklyUpdate!

Here, you'll find the latest developer tutorials, upcoming official MongoDB events, and get a heads up on our latest Twitch streams and podcast, curated by Adrienne Tacke at MongoDB:

Enjoy!

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🌟 Celebrating the 45th annual Black History Month 🌟

Photo from Jason Velez

February means it's Black History Month! We want to celebrate the Black community for its many contributions to society. So every week, we'll feature a Black pioneer in science and tech!

Orion Razat - Published Author of the book 101 STEM Jokes

Orion Razat is a 10 year old author of the book 101 STEM Jokes! Orion also has numerous accolades, from an award from Kids Who Bank for his creative vision as a young entrepreneur to winning the University of Washington’s 2020 Neuroscience for Kids Poetry contest! (via Stem Spark)

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🎓 Freshest Tutorials on DevHub

Want to find the latest MongoDB tutorials and articles created for developers, by developers? Look no further than our DevHub!

How to Use MongoDB Client-Side Field Level Encryption (CSFLE) with C#
Adrienne Tacke walks you through how to set up a system that uses CSFLE in the MongoDB .NET Driver, step by step.

Zap, Tweet, and Repeat! How to Use Zapier with MongoDB
Nic Raboy details how to collect Twitter data with Zapier, store it in MongoDB using a Realm webhook function, and then run aggregations on it using the MongoDB query language (MQL).

Accessing Realm Data on iOS Using Realm Studio
Andrew Morgan walks through how to track down the locations of your iOS Realm database files, open them in Realm Studio, view the data, and make changes.

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📅 Official MongoDB Events

Attend an official MongoDB event near you (virtual for now)! Chat with MongoDB experts, learn something new, meet other developers, and win some swag!

Feb 20 (1:00pm GMT-6 | Global) - MongoDB Community Nairobi Launch Party

Feb 24 (10:00am GMT-6 | Global) - Xamarin Guidance with Realm .NET

Feb 24 (5:00pm GMT+1 | DACH) - Schema-Design-Pattern für mehr Performance

Feb 25 (11:00am GMT-6 | Global) - For the Love of Databases: Interview with Asya Kamsky & Dani Monteiro

Feb 26 (2:00pm GMT-6 | Global) - MongoDB Community Nairobi Launch Party

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📺 MongoDB on Twitch

We stream tech tutorials, live coding, and talk to members of our community every Friday. Sometimes, we even stream twice a week! Be sure to follow us on Twitch to be notified of every stream!

Latest Stream
Building a YouTube Stats App with Realm Serverless Functions & MongoDB Charts

🍿 Follow us on Twitch so you never miss a stream!

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🎙 Last Word on the MongoDB Podcast

Latest Episode

Catch up on past episodes:

Ep. 43 - Everything You Know About MongoDB is Wrong, With Mark Smith

Ep. 42 - MongoDB Realm Mobile for iOS, With Jason Flax

Ep. 41 - Liberty Mutual and MongoDB

(Not listening on Spotify? We got you! We're most likely on your favorite podcast network, including Apple Podcasts, PlayerFM, Podtail, and Listen Notes 😊)

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💚 MongoDB Community Love

We love seeing how you're using MongoDB or simply sharing the good vibes of the community. If you want to be featured in an upcoming $weeklyUpdate, just tweet at us!

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🌍 MongoDB DevRel around the Interwebz

Watch our team do their thang at various conferences, meetups, and podcasts around the world (virtually, for now). Also, find external articles and guest posts from our DevRel team here!

// Last but not least, this is usually where I place any submissions from the $weeklyUpdate form(https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ABM-0iejm2OksklN9F4pDqziN--k_v-V3_5viJm262A/edit). I go through the responses (which are usually callouts to talks or events people are doing and want showcased), then add them here.

📅 Upcoming

February

Feb 17: DevNexus
Join Lauren Schaefer at DevNexus 2021 where she'll be giving the Keynote Address "Top Ten Tips for Making Remote Work Actually Work Right Now"!

Feb 25: Confoo
Lauren Schaefer will be at Confoo giving her talk "Stop! Don't Make These Mistakes in Your Document Database"!

March

Mar 10: Blueprint LDN
Adrienne Tacke will be at Blueprint LDN giving her talk "Multi-Cloud Magic: Leveraging Multi-Cloud Clusters in Real-World Scenarios"!

Mar 11: TheCloudFirst
Adrienne Tacke will be at the inaugural TheCloudFirst conference giving her talk "Multi-Cloud Magic: Leveraging Multi-Cloud Clusters in Real-World Scenarios"!

Mar 23: Codemotion Online Conference - Italian Edition
Lauren Schaefer will be at Codemotion Online Conference - Italian Edition giving her talk "Stop! Don't Make These Mistakes in Your Document Database"!

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