MongoDB Hackathon is Here

MongoDB
December 13, 2021 | Updated: December 14, 2021

As crazy as it sounds, we are approaching the end of 2021. While we start to look towards the new calendar year, MongoDB has something fun for all developers to get your creative juices flowing.

Announcing the MongoDB Atlas Hackathon on DEV, a chance for you to unleash your creativity, show off your skills, and win great prizes!

The Hackathon will run from December 13 to January 13th, and there will be five grand prize winners, each worth $1500.

The two rules to remember are that your submission must include a published post on DEV using the #atlashackathon tag, and you must have a public GitHub repository with an Apache 2 license.

That’s it. The rest is up to you.

Build that game you’ve always wanted, or create an app that manages to bring friends and family closer together, despite being on opposite sides of the world. Work together, work alone, work remotely, just have fun!

As long as your project utilizes MongoDB, you’re in. Just make it creative, make it well designed, and of course, well made.

Good luck! We can’t wait to see what you come up with.

To view official rules for the MongoDB Atlas Hackathon on DEV, click here.

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Log4Shell Vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046 and CVE-2021-45105) and MongoDB

When MongoDB became aware of the Log4Shell vulnerability ( CVE-2021-44228 , CVE-2021-45046 and CVE-2021-45105 ), we began an investigation to determine whether there had been any impact to our products, services or internal systems. As of December 20, 4pm ET, the following is the status of our investigation: table { border-spacing: 0px; } th, td { border-bottom: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; padding: 4px; } . Product Status MongoDB Atlas Search Update - Dec 18: Confirmed log4j removal from production Environment. Atlas Search is no longer affected. Dec. 17: Patched to log4j v.2.16.0 in response to CVE-2021-45046 Dec. 12: Patched to log4j v.2.15.0 in response to CVE-2021-44228 No evidence of exploitation or indicators of compromise prior to the patches were discovered. All other components of MongoDB Atlas (including Atlas Database, Data Lake, Charts) Not affected MongoDB Enterprise Advanced (including Enterprise Server, Ops Manager, Enterprise Kubernetes Operators) Not affected MongoDB Community Edition (including Community Server, Cloud Manager, Community Kubernetes Operators) Not affected MongoDB Drivers Not affected MongoDB Tools (including Compass, Database Shell, VS Code Plugin, Atlas CLI, Database Connectors) Not affected MongoDB Realm (including Realm Database, Sync, Functions, APIs) Not affected We continue to monitor our system and services for any updates. If you have any questions, please visit the MongoDB Community Forums . If you are a MongoDB Commercial Support subscriber and have questions related to your deployments, please open a support case.

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Data and the European Landscape: 3 Trends for 2022

The past two years have brought massive changes for IT leaders: large and complex cloud migrations; unprecedented numbers of people suddenly working, shopping and learning from home; and a burst in demand for digital-first experiences. Like everyone else, we are hoping that 2022 isn’t so disruptive (fingers crossed!), our customer conversations in Europe do lead us to believe the new year will bring new business priorities. We’re already noticing changes in conversations around vendor lock-in, thanks to the Digital Markets Act, a new enthusiasm for combining operational and analytical data to drive new insights faster, and a more strategic embrace of sustainability. Here’s how we see these trends playing out in 2022. Digital markets act draws new attention to cloud vendor lock-in in Europe We’ve heard plenty about the European Commission’s Digital Markets Act , which, in the name of ensuring fair and open digital markets, would place new restrictions on companies that are deemed to be digital “gatekeepers” in the region. That discussion will be nothing compared to the vigorous debate we expect once the EU begins the very tricky political business of determining exactly which companies will fall under the act. If the EU sets the bar for revenues, users, and market size high enough, it’s possible that the regulation will end up affecting only Facebook, Amazon, Google, Apple, and Microsoft. But a European group representing 2,500 CIOs and almost 700 organizations is now pushing to have the regulation encompass more software companies. Their main concern centers around “distorted competition” in cloud infrastructure services and a worry that companies are being locked into one cloud vendor. A trend that will likely increase in 2022 that pushes back on cloud vendor lock-in is embracing multi-cloud strategies. We should expect to see more organisations in the region pursuing multi-cloud environments as a means to improve business continuity and agility whilst being able to access best of breed services from each cloud provider. As we have always said …”it’s fine to date your cloud provider….but don’t ever marry them.” The convergence of operational and analytical data The processing of operational and analytical data is almost always contained in different data systems, each tuned to that use case and managed by separate teams. But because that data lives in separate places, it’s almost impossible for organisations to generate insights and automate actions in real time, against live data. We believe 2022 is the year we’ll see a critical mass of companies in the region make significant progress toward a convergence of their operational and analytical data. We’re already starting to see some of the principles of microservices in operational applications, such as domain ownership, be applied to analytics as well. We’re hearing about this from so many of our customers locally, who are looking at MongoDB as an application data platform that allows them to perform queries across both real-time and historical data, using a unified platform and a single query API. This results in the applications they are building becoming more intelligent and contextual to their users, while avoiding dependencies on centralized analytics teams that otherwise slow down how quickly new, data-driven experiences can be released. Sustainability drives local strategic IT choice Technology always has some environmental cost. Sometimes that’s obvious — such as the energy needs and emissions associated with Bitcoin mining. More often, though, the environmental costs are well hidden. The European Green Deal commits the European Union to reducing emissions by 55% by 2030, with a focus on sustainable industry. With the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP26) recently completed in Glasgow, and coming off the hottest European summer on record, climate issues have become top of mind. That means our customers are increasingly looking to make their technical operations more sustainable — including in their choice of cloud provider and data centers. According to research from IDC , more than 20% of CxOs say that sustainability is now important in selecting a strategic cloud service provider, and some 29% of CxOs are including sustainability into their RFPs for cloud services. Most interesting, 26% say they are willing to switch to providers with better sustainability credentials. Historically, it’s been difficult to make a switch like that. That’s part of the reason we built MongoDB Atlas — to give our customers the flexibility to run in any region , with any of the three largest cloud providers, and to make it easy to switch between them, and even to run a single database cluster across them. Publicly available information about the footprint of individual regions and even single data centers will make it simpler for companies to make informed decisions. Already, at least one cloud platform has added indicators to regions with the lowest carbon footprint. Source: IDC, European Customers Engage Services Providers at All Stages of Their Cloud Journey, IDC Survey Spotlight, Doc #EUR248484021, Dec 2021

December 21, 2021