Change the Ratio: Nominate a Female Innovator to Attend MongoDB World

Danielle James
January 25, 2017

Women have traditionally been significantly underrepresented in technology. At MongoDB, we’re committed to changing the ratio in our industry. MongoDB World, our annual educational conference, is coming up June 20-21 in Chicago, and we’re excited to kickstart another round of the Female Innovators initiative.

The program, now in its second year, aims to make MongoDB World more accessible to women in technology by issuing complimentary tickets to eligible candidates.

At the event, Female Innovators will be able to get insight into building and maintaining applications with MongoDB in technical sessions, have fun at our famous after party, connect with other women in tech at the Women and Trans Coders Lounge, and more.

How it works:

  1. Nominate a woman who works or aspires to work in tech. (You can also nominate yourself. We love self nominations!)
  2. Eligible nominees will be notified of their acceptance status by February 17.
Submit a Nomination

Make sure to act fast; only a limited number of tickets are available.

Award

Eligible nominees will receive complimentary admission to MongoDB World, June 20-21 in Chicago. Please note that travel and lodging is not included in this award.

Eligibility

Nominees must be 18 years old or older, and must identify as women. This includes cis, trans, genderqueer, and nonbinary people who identify as women.


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How a 520% Increase in Players Sparked Online Gaming Platform Pirate Kings Migration to MongoDB Professional and Cloud Manager

70 million pirates battle it out on MongoDB Jelly Button Games is a free-to-play mobile gaming company based in Tel Aviv, Israel that focuses on building original games that are mobile-friendly, multi-platform, and allow people to play together no matter where in the world they are located. Founded in 2011, Jelly Button has grown from the five original founders to more than 85 employees. I’m Shai Zonis, a senior server developer at Jelly Button for the game Pirate Kings. Pirate Kings is a fully realized world where over 70 million pirates battle it out to conquer exotic islands in a quest of gold, artifacts and revenge. Most users notice the palm trees, glimmers of gold, and the quality of the animation, but few think about the tools working behind the scenes to make the game operate seamlessly. ![Pirate Kings](https://mongodb.prakticum-team.ru/proxy/webassets.mongodb.com/_com_assets/cms/PirateKings1-asetu3pmrr.png "Pirate Kings") After upgrading to MongoDB Professional and Cloud Manager , we have scaled to easily manage 70 million users with 60% cost savings compared to our previous MongoDB hosting provider. While today everything is running smoothly, the path to success wasn’t always nicely paved - we had to fight our own battles to win the day. Challenges of a third party database hosting service Our team originally had experience with relational database technologies. However, we knew that a relational database would not provide the scale, agility and performance needed to make a game like Pirate Kings successful. MongoDB was the clear choice, though at the time, we didn’t know much about the operational aspects of running it. In the end we decide to work with a third party MongoDB hosting service to manage our database. In the early days Jelly Button had a million daily unique users and, for a while, all was going well. Suddenly, the game went viral and there was a 520% increase in users in just two weeks. The business was excited by this increase in popularity, though the engineering team got a little nervous about the latency spikes impacting the user experience. Despite the challenges we faced, we initially did not want to migrate from our existing hosting service because of the amount of time and money we had already invested in the platform. ![Pirate Kings](https://mongodb.prakticum-team.ru/proxy/webassets.mongodb.com/_com_assets/cms/PirateKings_2-y6i6skptmm.png "Pirate Kings") The final straw Fast forward to February of 2016 when our existing third party MongoDB hosting service began to strangle our ability to scale and expand the game. We were constantly facing issues with performance, and the third party service was not able to help us address the problem. At that point, it was necessary to move beyond a third party and instead work directly with the team that develops the database. We needed to find ways to better manage our data and scale to meet our growing number of users. We tried to make the transition on our own, but quickly realized we could accelerate the upgrade and transition by working directly with MongoDB Professional Services . Working with Masters - how MongoDB helped replatform our database and grow the business Before the migration, we were facing exorbitant costs and had very little insight into how the database was performing. MongoDB Professional Services worked alongside our team to successfully migrate Pirate Kings from the third party hosting service to MongoDB 3.2 configured with the WiredTiger storage engine in under two months. Together we were able to migrate, fix and optimize our database with little downtime. Our consultant was focused on teaching and mentoring the team, and the amount of know-how and technical discussions we had during this time were truly empowering. Working with professional services felt like working with true MongoDB masters. Once upgraded, we saw a 60% cost savings and we were able to compress 18 shards down to one single replica set. With the transition to WiredTiger, the data size on disk dropped by 60% due to its native compression libraries. MongoDB Cloud Manager, a platform for managing MongoDB, was also instrumental in giving us full insight into the database for the first time. With Cloud Manager we had much higher levels of data protection and lower operational complexity with managed backups. We were finally able to dig deep into database telemetry to understand the pitfalls that were inherent in our previous service. With MongoDB Professional , we were able to get direct access to 24x7 support. Overall, the complexity of our database significantly decreased and our database administrators are able to sleep much better. What’s Next While the main motivation for migrating away from a third party hosted service was to better manage Pirate Kings data, MongoDB provided us the promise of a better life for our developers and a better future for our company. Today Pirate Kings easily manages 10 million unique players per month. Better yet, our team now feels very comfortable and confident with the technology. Moving forward, you can expect to see Jelly Button develop two new games per year, all of which - we are excited to say - are being built on MongoDB. They are the pirate kings! Try MongoDB Cloud Manager

January 23, 2017
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Hanabi Technologies Uses MongoDB to Power AI Assistant, Hana

For all the hype surrounding generative AI, cynics tend to view the few real-world implementations as little more than “fancy chatbots.” But for Abhinav Aggarwal, CEO of Hanabi Technologies, the idea of a generative AI-powered bot that is more than just an assistant was intriguing. “I’d been using ChatGPT since it launched,” said Aggarwal. “That got me thinking: How could we make a chatbot that was like a team member?” And with that concept, Hana was born. The problem with bots “Most generative AI chatbots do not act like people; they wait for a command and give a response,” said Aggarwal. “We wanted to create a human-like chatbot that would proactively help people based on what they wanted—automating reminders, for example, or fetching time zones from your calendar to correctly schedule meetings.” Hanabi’s flagship product, Hana, is an AI assistant designed to enhance team collaboration within Google Chat, working in concert with Google Workspace and its suite of products. “Our target customers are smaller companies of between 10 and 50 people. At this size you’re not going to build your own agent from scratch,” he said. Hana integrates with Google APIs to deliver a human-like assistant that chimes in with helpful interventions, such as automatically setting reminders and making sure meetings are booked in the right time zone for each participant. “Hana is designed to bring AI to smaller companies and help them collaborate in a space where they are already working—Google Workspace,” Aggarwal explained. The MongoDB Atlas solution For Hana to act like a member of the team, Hanabi needed to process massive amounts of data to support advanced features like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for better information retrieval across Google Docs and many other sources. And with a rapidly growing user base of over 600 organizations and 17,000+ installs, Hanabi also required a secure, scalable, and high-performing data storage solution. MongoDB Atlas provided a flexible document model, built-in vector database, and scalable cloud-based infrastructure, freeing Hanabi engineers to build new features for Hana rather than focusing on rote tasks like data extract, transform, and load processes or manual scaling and provisioning. Now, MongoDB Atlas handles a variety of responsibilities: Scalability and security: MongoDB Atlas’s auto-scaling and automatic backup features have enabled Hanabi to seamlessly grow its user base without the need for manual database management. RAG: MongoDB Atlas plays a critical role in Hana’s RAG functionality. The platform enables Hanabi to split Google Docs into small sections, create embeddings, and store these sections in Atlas’s vector database. Development Processes: According to Aggarwal, MongoDB’s flexibility in managing changing schemas has been essential to the company’s fast-paced development cycle. Data Visualization: Using MongoDB Atlas Charts has enabled Hanabi to create comprehensive dashboards for real-time data visualization. This has helped the team track usage, set reminders, and optimize performance without needing to build a manual dashboard. Impact and results With MongoDB Atlas, Hanabi can successfully scale Hana to meet the demands of its rapidly expanding user base. The integration is also enabling Hana to offer powerful features like automatic interactions with customers, advanced information retrieval from Google Docs, and manually added memory snippets, making it an essential tool for teams around the world. Next steps Hanabi plans to continue integrating more tools into Hana while expanding its reach to personal Gmail users. The company is also rolling out a new automatic-interaction feature, further enhancing Hana’s ability to proactively assist users without direct commands. MongoDB Atlas remains a key component of Hanabi’s stack, alongside Google Kubernetes Engine, NestJS, and LangChain, enabling Hanabi to focus on innovating to improve the customer experience. Tech Stack MongoDB Atlas Google Kubernetes Engine NestJS LangChain Are you building AI apps? Join the MongoDB AI Innovators Program today! Successful participants gain access to free MongoDB Atlas credits, technical enablement, and invaluable connections within the broader AI ecosystem. If your company is interested in being featured, we’d love to hear from you. Connect with us at ai_adopters@mongodb.com.

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