How To SELECT ... FOR UPDATE Inside MongoDB Transactions — Don’t worry, SQL hasn’t suddenly appeared in MongoDB, but SELECT ... FOR UPDATE is a common way in the relational world to lock rows for reading as if they were updated to prevent other operations from modifying or deleting them. You can recreate a similar experience in MongoDB now too, and here’s a guide on how to lock records for updating within a MongoDB transaction and understanding write conflicts.

Renato Riccio

mongodb-user: An Open Forum for Discussing Technical MongoDB Questions — Get together with other MongoDB users in this open forum for discussion of technical questions. It’s not new but continues to get a lot of activity each day.

Google Groups

South America Gets MongoDB Atlas Free Tier — The free tier of MongoDB’s Atlas managed database platform isn’t available in every region, but support is gradually rolling out, with those in South America now able to give Atlas a try for free at the 512MB tier.

Jenny Liang (MongoDB)

MongoDB Atlas Now Supports Payments via PayPal

Jenny Liang (MongoDB)

Nova: A Relational Query Layer over MongoDB's Node Driver — A newly open sourced (but mature – 4 years old!) project that enables Node developers to use MongoDB in a more relational way, if they so choose. It also treats GraphQL as a first class citizen, though you’re not required to use it.

Kaviar

Tuning MongoDB and Linux for Tens of Thousands Connections — Henrik, a Senior Performance Engineer at MongoDB, wanted to run some large scale benchmarks on MongoDB and discovered some interesting tuning settings as they set about the task.

Henrik Ingo (MongoDB)

An Overview of MongoDB and Load Balancing — If you still want to manually improve the performance of your database using load balancing, here are some ways to achieve that.

Akash Kathiriya

Quick Start: Node.js & MongoDB - How to Get Connected to Your Database — A new series covering the basics of how to get started using MongoDB with Node.

Lauren Schaefer (MongoDB)

A Starter Template for TypeScript, Node, and MongoDB from Microsoft — An example app that includes a detailed README with how to get things set up, running, and deployed.

Microsoft

MongoDB Atlas on AWS – Denver, USA (November 13) — MongoDB and AWS are offering a free training day to help you and your team use MongoDB Atlas.

MongoDB.local – Toronto, Canada (November 21) — Single day event to learn about MongoDB tech, tools, and best practices.

MongoDB Atlas on Google Cloud Platform – London, UK (November 27) — MongoDB and Google Cloud are offering a free day of hands-on training to help you and your team use MongoDB Atlas.

MongoDB World – New York, USA (May 4-6, 2020) — 'Super Duper Early Bird' pricing (66% off) is now available.