{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-author-jsx","path":"/blog/author/shantanu_kedar/","result":{"data":{"prismic":{"allFeaturedblogs":{"edges":[{"node":{"featured_blogs_enabled":true,"heading":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"Featured posts","spans":[]}],"featured_blog_1":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Blog","_linkType":"Link.document","blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":790,"height":395},"alt":null,"copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/6d8d81b1-971a-4313-b033-b4e125cb14a0_MondoDB-blog-header-790x395.PNG?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Introducing DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB – a fully managed, database as a service for modern apps","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2021-06-29","blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"MongoDB is one of the most popular databases, and it’s ideal for apps that evolve rapidly and need to handle huge volumes of data and traffic. It offers advantages like flexible document schemas, code-native data access, change-friendly design, and easy horizontal scale-out.","spans":[{"start":22,"end":44,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://db-engines.com/en/ranking","target":"_blank"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"However, building and maintaining MongoDB clusters from the ground up can be a huge undertaking. Developers often complain that they have to spend their valuable time and resources on database management. Well, we’ve been listening and have some great news: accessing and managing MongoDB on DigitalOcean just got a lot simpler!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We are excited to announce that DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB is now in General Availability. Managed MongoDB is a fully managed, database as a service (DBaaS) offering from DigitalOcean, built in partnership with and certified by MongoDB Inc. It provides you all the technical capabilities that make MongoDB so beloved in the developer community. Together we have ensured that you will get access to all the latest releases of the MongoDB document database as they become available.","spans":[{"start":32,"end":91,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/managed-databases-mongodb/"}},{"start":230,"end":241,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.mongodb.com/","target":"_blank"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Managed MongoDB simplifies the MongoDB administration. Developers of all skill levels, even those who do not have prior experience in databases, can spin up MongoDB clusters in just a few minutes. We handle the provisioning, managing, scaling, updates, backups, and security of your MongoDB clusters, allowing you to offload the complex, time consuming –yet critical – database administration tasks to us. This empowers you to focus on what really matters: building awesome apps.","spans":[]},{"type":"embed","oembed":{"height":113,"width":200,"embed_url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvHQSV7jnKA","type":"video","version":"1.0","title":"Create a MongoDB Database on DigitalOcean","author_name":"DigitalOcean","author_url":"https://www.youtube.com/c/Digitalocean","provider_name":"YouTube","provider_url":"https://www.youtube.com/","cache_age":null,"thumbnail_url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NvHQSV7jnKA/hqdefault.jpg","thumbnail_width":480,"thumbnail_height":360,"html":""}},{"type":"heading2","text":"Benefits of Managed MongoDB","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Easy set up and maintenance: We create the database clusters for you. Simply choose the cluster configuration (e.g., memory, disk size, number of nodes, etc.), and the data center in which you want to host the database. 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Such users would rather offload the tedious database administration and focus their limited time and energy on building and enhancing their apps. ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"With this in mind, we introduced Managed Databases a couple of years ago and are excited to add Managed MongoDB to our portfolio. With this release, DigitalOcean Managed Databases now supports the following engines:","spans":[{"start":33,"end":50,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/managed-databases/"}}]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/87745cc1-1c5f-4463-b104-104b7fc30dc7_managed-databases-logos.png?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":849,"height":104}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Managed MongoDB launch comes on the heels of DigitalOcean App Platform, a modern, reimagined PaaS (Platform as a Service) that we released a few months ago. App Platform makes it very easy to build, deploy, and scale apps and static sites. You can deploy code by simply pointing to your GitHub and GitLab repos, and App Platform will do all the heavy lifting of managing infrastructure, app runtimes, and dependencies. App Platform, along with Managed Databases, helps fulfill DigitalOcean’s mission by empowering developers, startups, and SMBs to focus more on their apps, and less on the underlying infrastructure and databases.","spans":[{"start":45,"end":70,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"How Managed MongoDB works","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"DigitalOcean provides you with various compute options to build your apps like:","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Droplets: On-demand, Linux virtual machines suitable for production business applications and personal passion projects.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":8,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"DigitalOcean Kubernetes: Managed Kubernetes with automatic scaling, upgrades, and a free control plane.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":23,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"DigitalOcean App Platform: A fully managed Platform as a Service.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":25,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"No matter which compute option you choose to build your apps, you can easily add Managed MongoDB to it. 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His keynote will be followed by sessions from community members, engineers, customers, and other experts that are building technologies and businesses powered by the cloud. With live Q&A and an active Discord server, there’s ample opportunity to engage and learn something new. Click here to attend the deploy conference.","spans":[{"start":14,"end":69,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://deploy.digitalocean.com/agenda/session/552806"}},{"start":347,"end":384,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://do.co/deploy-discord"}},{"start":461,"end":489,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://do.co/deploy"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We are also launching a hackathon for DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB. 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We feel like we know infrastructure and can handle most of the configuration and management. What we needed from a cloud was not bells and whistles but efficiency and reliability. DigitalOcean provides us a platform to build our apps and then gets out of the way. Just how we like it.” - Achyuth Krishna, Director of Engineering of Whatfix","spans":[{"start":0,"end":7,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://whatfix.com/blog/driving-the-future-now-were-excited-to-announce-our-90-million-series-d-funding/"}},{"start":287,"end":648,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We understand that scaling while maintaining reliability of applications and profitability of business is important, so we provide robust solutions which minimize downtime.","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Centra is a SaaS-based e-commerce platform for global direct-to-consumer and wholesale e-commerce brands. 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The promise of not having to buy and maintain on-premises infrastructure is a potent one, especially for smaller businesses and entrepreneurs. However, the multitude of cloud offerings available makes research necessary when determining which offering is optimal for your workloads. Countless hours are often invested in gaining an understanding of available products, SLAs, and the costs of using the cloud. ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"One of the common complaints with major cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, and Microsoft Azure is that they might be inexpensive to begin with, but as you scale your apps, the costs rise significantly. These cloud providers typically target enterprises who have deep pockets to absorb the rising costs, but this often becomes cost prohibitive for entrepreneurs and small businesses over time.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"“Simplicity in all we do” is one of the core values at DigitalOcean. 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With a reliable platform that's trusted by over 100,000 developer teams worldwide, robust SLAs, and the right set of products, there has never been a better time to bring your workloads to DigitalOcean. If you’re ready to get started, we invite you to sign up for a free account. 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This is painful because – for some developers – this isn’t an area of expertise, and others who might have the skills prefer to spend their time and resources on building and enhancing apps. To address this problem, we built Managed Databases that allow you to offload the complex, mundane, and essential database administration tasks to us. This allows you to focus solely on your apps. ","spans":[{"start":514,"end":524,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The term ‘managed’ is overused in the tech industry, so many of you may wonder what that truly means in the context of DigitalOcean’s Managed Databases. Let’s dive in.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We create the databases for you. All you have to do is specify the engine type, cluster configuration, data center in which you want to host this database, and of course the database name. We’ll take care of the rest. 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We also handle software updates and security patches, which ensures your database is always up to date.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":19,"type":"strong"},{"start":232,"end":252,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/databases/mysql/how-to/secure/"}},{"start":269,"end":306,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/databases/mysql/how-to/schedule-updates/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We make your databases highly available. If your database goes down, it can take down the entire app. It’s not fun to be in such situations and meet the wrath of frustrated customers on support lines or worse, on social media. To avoid this, you can create clusters that are highly available. Just add standby nodes to your cluster. If the primary node fails, it will be replaced automatically by a standby node. The traffic failover happens automatically and immediately, meaning your apps won’t lose business continuity. ","spans":[{"start":0,"end":40,"type":"strong"},{"start":302,"end":315,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/databases/#cluster-configuration"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We reduce latency. You might have customers in all parts of the world. If you serve these customers from a database that’s hosted in a single data center, you run the risk of increasing latency. You can easily serve global users with reduced latency via read-only nodes, which are replicas of the primary node in additional geographical regions. ","spans":[{"start":0,"end":18,"type":"strong"},{"start":254,"end":269,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/databases/mysql/how-to/add-read-only-nodes/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Bandwidth pricing: Lastly, we want to call out the bandwidth pricing for Managed Databases. Even though bandwidth is not a managed feature, it’s still an important buying criteria as bandwidth costs can easily skyrocket. For Managed Databases, the ingress bandwidth is always free and egress bandwidth fees are waived until December 2020. (They will be assessed at $0.01/GB per month thereafter.) ","spans":[{"start":0,"end":18,"type":"strong"},{"start":183,"end":219,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://blog.digitalocean.com/its-all-about-the-bandwidth-why-many-network-intensive-services-select-digitalocean-as-their-cloud/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Note that Managed Redis does not support read-only nodes and daily point-in-time backups. Check out the docs to learn about the managed capabilities of each of the three database engines. ","spans":[{"start":104,"end":109,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/databases/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Should I use Managed Databases?","spans":[{"start":0,"end":31,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The answer is - it depends on what you’re building, your risk appetite, and your willingness to tinker with databases yourself. For example, if you have a low-traffic personal blog, if the database is still in the prototyping phase, or if cost is an issue (our Managed Databases begin at $15/mo), you should use 1-Click Apps from the Marketplace or the DIY approach. For most other applications, we recommend giving Managed Databases a try. ","spans":[{"start":334,"end":346,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Here’s a short video that walks you through Managed Databases. And if you’re ready to get started, we’re ready to help! 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