New CraftyCoders Meetup!

Drinks on Arrival
Welcome and Introduction
What's new in MongoDB 4.2? - Joe Drumgoole - MongoDB
Pizza and Refreshments
Application Performance Monitoring - Justyn Roberts - Instana

What's new in MongoDB 4.2?
MongoDB is a document database which stores data in flexible, JSON-like documents. MongoDB’s document model is simple for developers to learn and use, while still providing all the capabilities needed to meet the most complex requirements at any scale. Learn what's new in MongoDB 4.2. We'll look at powerful new tools to work with data including sharded transactions, wildcard indexes, and the $merge aggregation stage.

Application Performance Monitoring
Why automation and machine learning are the only options as organizations transition to a microservices model, and the reasons why traditional plugin based systems add cost and complexity. This will include a live demo of Instana - a platform to provide automated insight for modern, dynamic architectures.

Joe Drumgoole is Director of Developer Advocacy at MongoDB. He has over 30 years of commercial software development experience, and ran the team that developed on of the worlds first packaged Internet Banking systems at CR2 in 1999. he has founded three startups and is a dyed in the wool Pythonista who has recently added C# to his kit bag.

Justyn Roberts is a senior solutions architect for Instana. Prior to last two years at Instana, Justyn worked in the CTO's office for Citrix, and as a Presales consultant for a number of silicon valley startups. Justyn is passionate about automation and generally using IT to make life simpler.