MongoDB Gives Developers Tools To Digitize the Enterprise, Cupcakes Too
Developers are the kingmakers, so MongoDB rolled out the red carpet for them.
To be more specific, at MongoDB World in Chicago this week, the ten-year-old document database startup unveiled new services and tools, connections to new clouds, a field of ping pong tables, tickets to the Cubs game, cupcakes and more.
Meet Stitch
First out of MongoDB’s gift box came Stitch, a backend as a service (BaaS) that handles commoditized tasks like storing and retrieving data, security and data privacy, as well as integrating and composing various services for developers.
In other words, Stitch takes care of “the plumbing” so that developers can focus their time and energies on building modern applications and game-changing user experiences.
Stitch controls things like data access and orchestrates services — from authentication, to payments, messaging and more. It also comes with pre-built integrations into services such as Google, Facebook, AWS, Twilio, Slack, MailGun and PubNub. Additional cloud or microservices can be added easily using the Stitch HTTP service, according to the company.
Stitch also provides a single API to the MongoDB database, stitches services together, implements tricky but essential access control, and manages data. By removing those barriers MongoDB gives developers the ability to build ground-breaking applications with less friction. Stitch will initially be available on MongoDB Atlas, a cloud service which MongoDB supports.
Three Clouds, Your Choice
MongoDB also announced that MongoDB Atlas, its DBaaS (database-as-a-service) is now available on three cloud platforms AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure.
This is another sweet benefit for developers who want to use MongoDB for their projects but whose companies don’t use AWS.
To be clear, it is not that developers weren’t able to build MongoDB solutions on GCP or Azure before now, but it was cumbersome because of the operational overhead involved in running the database according to best practices.
MongoDB Launches Charts
MongoDB CTO and Co-Founder Eliot Horowitz announced an upcoming release of MongoDB Charts, a Business Intelligence (BI) tool that will soon provide developers with ad hoc, native data visualization for MongoDB. It earned a great deal of interest from the developer community.
Why?
Because MongoDB developers now use traditional BI tools like Tableau and Qlik and , according to Horowitz, some data gets lost in the process. With Charts, once the new release is out, developers should be equipped with the tools they need for data analysis, and building charts and dashboards directly from MongoDB.
What Keeps Larry Ellison up at Night?
At the conference Cisco demoed a migration tool to move RDBMS data to MongoDB. It’s exactly the kind of thing that could keep Oracle founder and CTO Larry Ellison up at night.
Why? Because in a world where developers call the shots and are attracted to more flexible open source technologies, they might build solutions, show them to the business and loosen the uncomfortable, iron grip that Oracle has over large enterprises.
What Keeps MongoDB World Attendees Up at Night?
It’s not just technology that developers like. MongoDB World also offered music, ping pong and the obligatory cupcakes required to celebrate the company’s 10th birthday.
