MongoDB.local London 2024: Better Applications, Faster

MongoDB.local London 2024 event took place recently, discussing technology trends and celebrating customer innovations. The company has identified three key areas of focus from its customers: helping developers build faster and more efficiently, empowering teams to create AI-powered applications, and moving from legacy systems to modern platforms. MongoDB's updates reflect these priorities, with a strong emphasis on providing resilient, scalable, secure, and highly performant databases. At the event, Sahir Azam, MongoDB’s Chief Product Officer, discussed the foundational role data plays in application development. The biggest news at .local London was the general availability of MongoDB 8.0, which provides significant performance improvements, reduced scaling costs, and adds additional scalability, resilience, and data security capabilities to the world's most popular document database. Other announcements included improved scaling and elasticity on MongoDB Atlas capabilities, a new IntelliJ plugin for MongoDB, and the MongoDB Participant for GitHub Copilot in public preview. These updates are designed to accelerate application development, simplify AI innovation, and speed developer upskilling.