Abstract
MongoDB with a frustration instead of a business plan. Databases were rigid and getting outpaced by the rest of the tech stack. This frustration resulted in showing up at meetups, passionate arguments on forums, listening, learning, and building in the open. The community became co-conspirators rather than users.
We made mistakes, shipped features fast, and were often humbled. But what looked like mistakes resulted in continuous improvements in the code, features, and the co-conspirators around it.
We trace that journey: The architectural bets. The hard lessons in building trust and resilience at scale. The product tenets that turned early skepticism into widespread adoption. We will share the way open source turned into the engine of a sustainable and formidable business. Why we chose to monetize developer convenience instead of control. How we earned enterprise trust without compromising our values, and how a developer-first philosophy became a competitive moat.
This is the story of an underdog that didn’t come from Silicon Valley. We will attempt to inspire you to build in the MongoDB way, making longer term bets, and building formidable business through open source.
Speaker
Akshat Vig
Distinguished Engineer @MongoDB, Previously Senior Principal Engineer NoSQL@AWS
Akshat Vig is a Distinguished Engineer at MongoDB, where he works on some of the most difficult distributed systems problems that come with building & operating a global cloud database at scale. Previously, he spent 15 years at Amazon Web Services, where he was part of DynamoDB from its inception and launched multiple AWS database services. He has co-authored several database papers and filed nearly 100 patents. Outside of work, he’s usually running, cycling, skiing, or walking—doing his best to keep up with his family’s pace.
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Speaker
Andrew Davidson
SVP Products @MongoDB - Foundational in the Evolution of MongoDB from a Database to Cloud Service Company, Previously Scaled Global Mapping Operations @Google
Andrew Davidson is the SVP of Products at MongoDB. In his decade plus with the company, he has been foundational in the creation of the product management function and the evolution of MongoDB from a database to a cloud service company. While at MongoDB, he was also named one of the 10 people defining the new database landscape by Protocol. Andrew previously scaled global mapping operations at Google, worked in energy economics, and lived extensively in South Asia. Andrew holds a Bachelor’s in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley.
