#51 — April 11, 2019

Read on the Web

MongoDB Memo

Remember MongoDB Weekly? We're back!

This is the same newsletter, except we're now called MongoDB Memo. We'll be coming to you every two weeks, as every week seemed a little too intensive. But no fear, each issue will be packed with the same high quality links, news, tutorials, and events as before. 🙂

— Your editors, Peter Cooper and Chris Brandrick

Gopher character by Maria Letta

The Official MongoDB Driver for Go(lang) is Now Ready For Production — Way back in issue 1 of this newsletter (January 2018), we linked to a story about why MongoDB was building its own official Go driver when a community built driver already existed. That driver now exists and is at its 1.0 release.

MongoDB

JSON Schema Validation - Locking Down Your Model The Smart Way — A look at how to validate your document model with a JSON Schema, something MongoDB has supported natively since MongoDB 3.6.

Ken W. Alger

MongoDB Named a Leader in Forrester's Latest NoSQL Report — MongoDB has been recognized as a NoSQL market leader by research firm Forrester in its Forrester Wave™: Big Data NoSQL, Q1 2019 Report with the strongest “current offering”.

MongoDB

How Oakbrook Finance Runs Its Loans Service on Microservices and MongoDB Atlas — A MongoDB case study with a British finance company who lean heavily on Atlas as part of ‘automating away’ their IT operations.

Alexandra Loh

📖 Tutorials

Building with Patterns: The Preallocation Pattern — Following the depreciation of MMAPv1 in MongoDB 4.0 the Preallocation pattern appeared to lose some of its luster, but here’s a look at a use case for the pattern that may still be applicable.

Daniel Coupal and Ken W. Alger (MongoDB)

Developing a RESTful API with Go and MongoDB — How to use the official MongoDB Go SDK to build a RESTful API that can be consumed by any client facing app.

Nic Raboy

How to Create Dynamic Custom Roles with MongoDB Stitch — If you’re using MongoDB’s Stitch app platform, you can define custom roles to adjust what resources and actions a user can access.

Andrew Morgan (MongoDB)

Building an Analytics Dashboard with Node, Express, and Cube.js

Artyom Keydunov

🔧 Code and Libraries

Mongoku: A Web-Based MongoDB Client — A basic, open source browser-based MongoDB client built on top of TypeScript, Node.js and Angular.

Hugging Face

MongoDB Input and Output Plugin for FluentdFluentd is a popular, open source log/event collection system. This plugin brings MongoDB support for both input and output data to Fluentd.

Fluentd

🗓 Events

DevopsDays Houston – Houston, USA (April 16-17) — A two-day conference covering topics of software development, IT infrastructure operations, and the intersection between them.

AWS Summit Dubai – Dubai, United Arab Emirates (April 17) — Registration is free and available via AWS's website.

AWS Summit Amsterdam – Amsterdam, Holland (April 17) — Bringing people in Benelux together to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS.

AWS Summit Seoul – Seoul, South Korea (April 17-18) — Join the MongoDB team in Seoul and learn more about MongoDB Atlas.

MongoDB World 2019 – NYC, USA (June 17-19) — Three days of learning, networking and building and you'll get to hear about what's next for MongoDB.