Andrew Morgan

Senior Staff Engineer and developer advocate @ MongoDB. All opinions are his own.

[Andrew Morgan @andrewmorgan]

I'm often presented with architectural diagrams showing a cache layer (Redis) sitting between the application and MongoDB. I've writen this article to explain if/when that architecture is the best approach https://t.co/mEigqy13EC @MongoDB

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It surprises many that what they think of as “schemaless” MongoDB has built-in schema validation.

Learn how to combine this with @MongoDB's superpower of allowing developers to evolve the schema over time. https://t.co/Xy16nT9zgB

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Working with semi-structured data?

In this article, I demonstrate how @MongoDB makes it simple to store data with variable formats and retrieve exactly what you need—efficiently. 👇
https://t.co/xrGKm7tzLz

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New article on combining MongoDB schema validations with multiple schema versions. How to enjoy the flexibility of the MongoDB document model while ensuring that your data is always correct. https://t.co/jkjL9DpOv8 #mongodb

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@mjasay In my “For You” stream I get a huge number of hate-filled, anti-media, right-wing posts. I assume that’s driven by the activity levels of the people I still follow.

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@mjasay Not posted or responded to anything on X for many months (other than voting on some community responses). In my main feed, I mostly get Musk retweets or comments (because he’s one of the few people I follow who still post there apart from my football team - even more depressing)

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@sogrady Even if it was racist (which it wasn’t), how could anyone equate it to the harm that real racism has caused. I go to India many times a year and constantly get warned that what I ordered may be too spicy for me - no racism, no offence, no harm

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@dominicfrei So as an honest user, you go through an exchange that needs you to ID yourself. Does a criminal blackmailing an institution or selling weapons need to do that? Or is crypto providing a more safer/more convenient replacement for suitcases full of cash?

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@dominicfrei OK – substitute a tofu burger (though I won't be eating that) ;)

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@dominicfrei Should we reduce our use of AI to generate cat vieos? Yep

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@dominicfrei AI providers are incentivised to use the least energy possible to solve a complex computing problem. BitCoin burns massive amounts of energy to process a transaction that Visa can do for less than 1/1,000,000 of the cost

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@dominicfrei Roughly the same carbon footprint to buy a packet of pretzels as to fly from London to New York – and they even throw in the pretzels for free ;)

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@dominicfrei 3. No issue with speculation, but the consumption of crazy amounts of energy to fuel it is an issue

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@meggino They will - when their school bus leaves at 7:45, sleeping past 8:00 will be a breeze

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I’ve been on WiFi most of the time, and so a bit shocked by this. My grandfathered-in Three GoRoam doesn’t give me free data in Thailand - but even if it was an included country, it’s capped at 12 GB per month - suddenly doesn’t feel like such a great deal

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No regrets on paying $20 for a local unlimited data eSIM for a work trip to Thailand. 218 GB in just over a week so far. 213 just from tethering my work laptop for a couple of hours - crazy how fast you can burn through data when you constantly have a great 5G connection

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Kicking off FY25 with events and meetings in Bangkok

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Yesterday marked the end of the @MongoDB financial year, and so I decided to check my stats on a busy year of working with our strategic accounts.

[Andrew Morgan @andrewmorgan]

I had one-on-one meetings with 154 project teams to give them technical advice on how best to used MongoDB for their application – this was across 59 different customers. Presented at 42 events, across 15 countries.