[Tutorial] Introducing MongoDB Atlas
In this tutorial series, MongoDB Developer Advocate Jay Gordon walks you through how to spin up your first MongoDB cluster in MongoDB Atlas.
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Integrating MongoDB Atlas, Twilio and AWS Simple Email Service with AWS Step Functions
A few weeks ago, I took a close look at AWS Lambda functions and I hope you've enjoyed that tutorial. I highly suggest that you first read it if you have no previous experience with AWS Lambda, as...
Vyopta: Shipping fast and reducing operational costs with MongoDB Atlas
This is a guest post from Brent Mills, Principal Infrastructure Engineer at Vyopta, an analytics company that enterprises use to monitor, support, and optimize their video and unified...
How to Alert Your DevOps Team About Your MongoDB Database
Monitoring and alerting are key ingredients of the DevOps methodology put into practice. The systems that you run or the applications on them will generate a ton of telemetry data that you can...
Comparing Cloud MongoDB Services: MongoDB Atlas vs mLab
Choosing a database service provider for running your MongoDB deployments is not a decision to be taken lightly. You need a partner that you can trust to keep your databases available, secure, and...
New — Live Migrations, More AWS Regions, Queryable Backups & More in MongoDB Atlas
Last month we announced the Free Tier in MongoDB Atlas and the availability of MongoMirror, a downloadable utility that makes migrating live MongoDB replica sets easy. We’ve since incorporated the...
Microsoft Azure Functions Tutorial
As announced at MongoDB World ‘17, MongoDB Atlas, the database-as-a-service provided by the creators of MongoDB, is now available on the three major public cloud providers: Amazon Web Services,...
Integrating MongoDB Atlas, Twilio, and AWS Simple Email Service with AWS Step Functions - Part 2
This is Part 2 of the AWS Step Functions overview post published a few weeks ago. If you want to get more context on the sample application business scenario, head back to read Part 1. In this...
DevOps Automation with MongoDB Atlas
Configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef and Ansible, which provide the ability to quickly automate config and deployment processes, have become a critical...
Restoring MongoDB Atlas Database Backups in AWS
DBAs, DevOps or Sys Admin professionals spend valuable time writing scripts for managing database backups. Whether a combination of common tools such as rsync or native dump scripts, database...
Secure Your MongoDB Database on the AWS Cloud
Say you’ve just built your application and for the data layer, you’ve chosen to deploy MongoDB on AWS EC2 instances that you will manage yourself. Pause for a moment and consider your...
Optimizing AWS Lambda performance with MongoDB Atlas and Node.js
I attended an AWS user group a few weeks ago, and many of the questions from the audience concerned caching and performance. In this post, I review the performance implications of using Lambda...
Live Migration: Moving Your Data From Cloud Manager to Atlas
You may be using MongoDB Cloud Manager to monitor, back up, and automate your MongoDB deployment. If you like some of the functionality in Cloud Manager but were looking for a more managed...
5 Database Alerts to set up for MongoDB
In 2013, we put together a blog post about 5 Cloud Manager alerts to help keep your MongoDB deployment on track. This post is an update based on recent changes in MongoDB. What’s happening inside...
How to Query Your Backup with MongoDB Atlas
Backups for MongoDB made easy Ever accidentally drop something out of a database and realize that you aren't sure if it's in your backups? Need to compare data across different points in time? Or...
MongoDB Atlas Customer Spotlight: Checkr
MongoDB Atlas continues to explode in popularity amongst our users. One of the big reasons MongoDB has grown to be the fourth largest database in the world is the desire by users to share their...
Automated MongoDB Updates, No Problem with Atlas
As a developer, you have a lot of different options to run the MongoDB database for your application. But as you plan to launch your app, it’s important to consider how the database is secured,...
Programmatic API Management of your MongoDB Atlas Database Clusters
MongoDB Atlas has a full featured API which allows our users to programmatically create, modify and delete their clusters. We'll go over some basics on how to do this using curl in our bash...
Developing a Facebook Chatbot with AWS Lambda and MongoDB Atlas
This post is part of our Road to re:Invent series. In the weeks leading up to AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas this November, we'll be posting about a number of topics related to running MongoDB in the...
CIDR Subnet Selection for MongoDB Atlas
One of the best features of MongoDB Atlas is the ability to peer your host VPC on your own Amazon Web Services (AWS) account to your Atlas VPC. VPC peering provides you with the ability to use the...
Introducing VPC Peering for MongoDB Atlas