While the crypto market never fails to attract masses of attention, it was Non-Fungible Tokens – or NFTs as we more commonly know them – that exploded into the mainstream in 2021.

From a trading volume of around $100m in 2020, the arrival of celebrities, sportstars, and global brands – creating everything from collectibles and digital art to gaming and assets for the metaverse – drove NFT trading to an estimated $22bn in 2021. 

Launched in July 2021, CNFT.IO is a marketplace for NFTs, and the first ever built on the Cardano blockchain. Within just six months of its debut, close to $200m of NFTs had been traded on CNFT.IO, representing 80%+ of all NFTs sold on Cardano, and growing at around $1m per day. As of early 2022, the CNFT.IO marketplace serves 150,000 users, and lists over 1.1 million assets in its catalog.

Professor Cardano sits down with Michael to explore the world of Cryptocurrencies and NFTs. 

Read more about CNFT.io and MongoDB here.

Data has always been an essential part of video games. From player profiles to telemetry, matchmaking to leaderboards, data is crucial to making games work – and making them better. Recent trends in gaming make data even more important. When you’re choosing a database for your next video game, consider your data requirements. Modern games are multiplayer and online, reach massive scale, and must evolve quickly to stay relevant. Join Michael Lynn as he discusses data, and the impact MongoDB has on Game Development with Sig Narvaez, and Jim Blackhurst.

To learn more about how MongoDB impacts Game Development visit: https://www.mongodb.com/use-cases/gaming

To learn about MongoDB at the Game Developers Conference, visit: https://www.mongodb.com/gdc

To learn more about the Game Developers Conference, visit: https://gdconf.com

If you're planning on visiting GDC, remember to visit us at P1561 in Center Hall to learn more about MongoDB, snag some exclusive gaming swag, and chat with MongoDB’s leading experts in gaming! Mention "PODCAST" to receive a special gift!

Twilio was founded in 2008 by Jeff Lawson, Evan Cooke, and John Wolthuis.

Millions of developers around the world have used Twilio to unlock the magic of communications to improve any human experience.

Twilio has democratized communications channels like voice, text, chat, video, and email by virtualizing the world’s communications infrastructure through APIs that are simple enough for any developer to use, yet robust enough to power the world’s most demanding applications.

By making communications a part of every software developer’s toolkit, Twilio is enabling innovators across every industry — from emerging leaders to the world’s largest organizations — to reinvent how companies engage with their customers.  

On this episode, we chat with Liz Moy, Developer Evangelist at Twilio to learn more about how Twilio simplifies adding communication to your applications and works well with MongoDB.

Twilio and MongoDB Tutorials + Blog Posts

• https://www.twilio.com/blog/automatically-trigger-twilio-sms-mongodb-mongodb-functions
• https://dev.to/twilio/save-user-input-via-slackbot-with-twilio-autopilot-functions-and-mongodb-3i13
• https://www.twilio.com/docs/voice/tutorials/automated-survey-node-express

Growth engineering, sometimes referred to as "growth hacking" is a technical, and systematic approach to growing the number of users of a given application or platform. Growth engineers are always coming up with new ideas and experiments to improve the users' experience. They do this by testing user behavior, and providing differing interfaces to select populations of users to see which one yields the intended results. Today, we chat with the team responsible for growth at MongoDB. Jesse Krasnostein, and Akshay Sadarangani chat about the science of growth engineering, the tools they use as well as the background and skills they leverage as part of this fascinating specialization. To learn more about career opportunities like this one, visit https://www.mongodb.com/careers

Deno is a “modern” runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that is built in Rust. This makes it very fast!

If you are familiar with Node.js then you will be right at home with Deno. It is very similar but has some improvements over Node.js. In fact, the creator of Deno, Ryan Dahl, also created Node and Deno is meant to be the successor to Node.js.

When you think of the Holidays, I'll bet the first thing you think of is the MongoDB Atlas Data API... right? Ok, maybe not the first thing for you, but it was one of the first things my colleague John Page thought of. He's put together a very cool holiday project that exposes a string of lights via the MongoDB Atlas Data API and it enables you to interact and change the lights on his tree. To get more information about this amazing project, read his recent article on the MongoDB Developer Blog here at https://www.mongodb.com/developer/article/christmas_2021_mongodb_data_api/.

You can link directly to the tree project here. 

Thanks to John for building this great, inspirational project and thanks to all of you for listening throughout the year. 

As of 2019, over 50% of global enterprises use at least one public cloud platform for their everyday business operations. Since then, that number has nearly doubled with many analysts predicting a similar, if not greater, jump into 2022. 

The continuing flood of businesses migrating infrastructures to the cloud has fueled explosive growth. IDC forecasts the combined public cloud Infrastructure and Platform workloads market will grow to a whopping $400 billion dollars by 2025. 

For developers, engineers and those interested in technology, this presents a massive opportunity. Companies of all sizes continue to seek out cloud computing expertise, offering some of the highest salaries in the tech domain. 

If you’re interested in software, technology, and data… you may be thinking that you need to learn to write code and build something in order to find employment in today’s fast-paced, tech-focused economy. However… think again.

We’re going to look at a corner of the cloud, you may have overlooked.

Mark Kirpichnikov is a Cloud Support Associate and today he, along with his manager, Jon Fanti help me dive into and learn more about the Cloud Support roles.

for more information about career opportunities within Technical Services at MongoDB, Visit:  https://www.mongodb.com/careers/departments/customer-engineering

Check out this article from Alex Bevilacqua on the Technical Services Engineer Role.

John Fahl is a freelance DevOps and Security Consultant. He's worked with numerous customers to help them transform, and adopt a DevOps mindset in their software development and deployment practices. On today's show Michael and John explore DevOps for a better definition, and talk about some of the tools, processes and benefits of implementing a more collaborative approach to the development, deployment and operations lifecycle. 

John's Web Site:

https://thedarkwriter.io

John's Article on DevOps (Medium): 

https://medium.com/@jvftuo/my-journey-to-devops-eb655684a814

John's Book - Miraden's Folly: Her Soul of Fire Book One:

https://amzn.to/304AjYa

John's Client (MagicBus):

https://www.magicbus.io/

HashiCorp Terraform:

https://www.terraform.io/

Dominic Wellington (LinkedIn)

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The MongoDB Data API lets you read and modify data in MongoDB Atlas over HTTP. You don't need any additional MongoDB drivers, libraries, or connection strings; just a standard HTTP client and a valid API key.

The Data API's endpoints expose actions that are similar to the standard query methods available in MongoDB drivers. You can call them to create, read, update, delete, or aggregate documents in your cluster. 

Sumedha Mehta is the Product Manager responsible for the Data API and she joins Michael for a brief introduction to the product, how it works as well as its benefits. 

Be sure to check the links below for resources, examples and documentation to help get you started.

Screencast Tutorial (Youtube): 

• https://youtu.be/aVRnDu_BYy8

Documentation:

• https://docs.atlas.mongodb.com/api/data-api/

Blog Article by John Page:

• https://www.mongodb.com/developer/quickstart/atlas_data_api_introduction/

With Black Friday upon us, let's take this opportunity to focus on solutions in the retail and E-Commerce space.

Loan Laux is a freelance developer, and the founder of out:grow, an E-Commerce Agency specializing in helping retailers grow, and migrate to more efficient technology solutions. Loan shares the story of his journey as a developer, as a founder and why MongoDB is an essential and efficient part of the modern E-Commerce technology stack. 

To contact Loan, send him an email: llaux@trellis.co

You will reach Loan on Twitter at https://twitter.com/loanlaux

Be sure to stop by the MongoDB Booth at AWS re:Invent.