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MongoDB 4.2 (Beta) Announced at MongoDB World 2019

This week at MongoDB World, Elliot Horowitz, CTO and Co-founder at MongoDB, announced many different new and exciting features in the MongoDB 4.2 release. Out of many new features, I am highlighting a few that will help the development community a lot.

Wildcard Indexes

MongoDB is known as a flexible database that contains different types of data models in one collection. This wildcard index will help a lot in applications where read-heavy operations are dependent on flexible document structures. With this index type, you can create an index on sub/embedded documents and make your reads fast.

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Increases in Speed and the Impact of Low-Code Development

I had the opportunity to speak with Matt Richard, CTO of LiUNA, following the keynote at Appian World, in which several improvements to the company's low-code development platform were reviewed from the latest release.

Matt and his three-developer team have been using Appian for the past seven years to replace and update more than 50 different legacy systems. While they use Appian to manage and support 500,000-plus members across 300-plus organizations, what Matt is most pleased with is Appian's willingness to listen to and address feedback. He said, "Appian listens to developers and solves their issues within a release cycle."

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Write Once, Deploy Anywhere

I had the opportunity to speak with Wendy Pfeiffer, CTO at Nutanix, Inc. today following the announcement extending the Xi Frame desktop-as-a-service solution from the public cloud to the private cloud, enabling the delivery of apps and desktops in a hybrid cloud environment. 

According to Wendy, the ability to build clusters on EC to bare metal is the big news in this release in that addresses the challenge of developers who've had to choose how to develop for the clouds or infrastructures they were developing for.

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Bjorn Freeman-Benson: Three Challenges of Distributed Teams

Distributed team: are they the solution to our staffing problems, or an expensive fantasy? I had the opportunity to sit down with Bjorn Freeman-Benson earlier this month to explore these questions.

Bjorn is an experienced software leader. Highlights of his career include heading up engineering at New Relic as it grew from 3 developers to 330; growing Invision from 60 developers to 350 as its CTO; working on VisualAge Smalltalk at OTI (Object Technology International); and coordinating the open-source Eclipse developers at the Eclipse Organization.

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AIOps Solution Open to Third Parties for Autonomous Cloud Management

Great speaking with Brend Greifeneder, CTO at Dynatrace, during Perform 2019 where he announced the next generation of their Artificial Intelligence engine, Davis, which is now powered by new and enhanced algorithms and an ability to ingest data and events from a third-party.

“Four years ago, we pioneered, and continually improve, a unique, deterministic approach to AI that enabled customers to simplify enterprise cloud environments and focus more time on innovation. Because Dynatrace auto-discovers and maps dependencies across the enterprise cloud and analyzes all transactions, our Davis AI engine can truly causate, and drive to the precise root cause of issues versus simple guesses based on the correlation. This concept just got even better through semantically enriching external data and mapping it to our real-time topological models. In addition, unlike other solutions, it doesn't require learning periods, making it effective for highly dynamic clouds,” explained Bernd.