Author: Mongo Silverback

2023 End-of-Life Notices

A couple of key Product EOLs over the next couple of quarters to note. As always, there will be no support for EOL versions of MongoDB products without prior arrangement. MongoDB Enterprise Server v4.2When: Supported through 30 April 2023What to...

Goodbye, January! New MongoDB Goodness

Lots of new things in MongoDB’s offerings as we get ready to say hello to February! 1) Public preview of MongoDB Atlas for Azure Data Studio extension | Partner Blog | Azure Release Notes | Azure Data Studio extension Docs– Azure Data Studio is a downloadable...

Meet Me in Toronto!

The Mongo Silverback will be attending MongoDB.local in Toronto next week – will you be? Come by to say Hi or schedule an Ask the Experts session (who knows, you might get ME!). Or partake in one of the technical...

MongoDB University at 10 – Upping Its Game

Celebrating this 10-year-old in style – Happy Birthday MongoDB University! New content. New content shapes and sizes. New user experience. New hands-on Labs. Support for new languages to embrace even more students worldwide! New easy-to-remember URL. Same great place to...

Practical MongoDB Aggregations v5

The free, online book just gets better and better. (Author’s note: yes, indeed, I took a blog hiatus) Paul Done has come out with yet another update to his wonderful book “Practical MongoDB Aggregations”. This fifth edition covers up to...

The All New MongoDB Spark Connector

Version 2 of the MongoDB Spark Connector is out! The current version of the MongoDB Spark Connector was originally written in 2016 and is based upon Version 1 of the Spark Data source API. While this API is still supported,...

Keeping Up With Atlas

I am frequently asked “MongoDB keeps added new stuff all the time to Atlas – how can I keep up with all of this?” The answer is simple: bookmark the MongoDB Atlas Release Notes!

The Latest Charts Goodness

1) Query Library: More than a quarter of Charts customers use queries when building new charts. To make their lives easier, we’ve added the ability to save and re-use previously saved queries directly from the chart builder. Query Library supports:...

Upcoming MongoDB Enterprise 4.0 EOL

This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. MongoDB Enterprise v4.0 will be end-of-lifed at the end of April (in less than three months). After April 30: MongoDB Enterprise v4.0 will not be supported by MongoDB, unless special arrangements are made...