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Work at MongoDB.
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meghan··on OPA maintainers and Styra employees hired by Apple
Here are a few OPA alternatives: https://www.osohq.com/learn/open-policy-agent-authorization-...
meghan··on OPA maintainers and Styra employees hired by Apple
Seems similar to Apple's 2015 acquisition of FoundationDB -- they sunset the commercial offering. But it's unclear if they acquired Styra or just hired the team?

I'm maintaining an article about this news (as well as commercial alternatives to OPA) on the Oso blog: https://www.osohq.com/post/opa-maintainers-join-apple-oss-co...

Disclaimer is that I work with Oso :-) but hope it will be helpful regardless.

meghan··on Why LLM Authorization is Hard
Yes, similar discussion across two separate articles: (1) article from General Analysis on "Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database" (2) article from Oso talking about why authorization in AI is hard, what to do about it, which references the General Analysis article
meghan··on Tell HN: MongoDB Security Notice Update
MongoDB employee posting:

Out of an abundance of caution, we cast a wide net and contacted all current and past MongoDB users, including those that may have closed their MongoDB Atlas Projects. If you would like to have your contact information completely deleted from our systems, please file a GDPR deletion request: https://www.mongodb.com/legal/privacy-policy/request-for-del...

You can reach out to me directly for assistance with this, if needed. My email is my first name at mongodb dot com.

meghan··on MongoDB security notice
MongoDB employee posting:

The login issues are unrelated to the security incident. We notified all of our customers and users concurrently resulting in a spike in login attempts. Please try again in a few minutes if you are still having trouble logging in.

Please continue to monitor our alerts page: https://www.mongodb.com/alerts

meghan··on Distributed Authorization and Wayfair’s Supply Chain
Seems like they have bindings for several languages, but I think Python was the first language they supported
meghan··on Let's build the GitHub authorization model
Nice post. This covers how you'd model the permissions, etc. but do you have any articles/docs on how you'd actually integrate this into an application?
meghan··on Show HN: oso – Open-Source Policy Engine for Authorization
Cool - congrats! Would love to hear more about why you chose Rust for this?
meghan··on MongoDB extra funding round/IPO
Meghan from MongoDB here.

Agree that eventual consistency is inappropriate for the majority of database workloads. This is why we has always defaulted to strong consistency, by reading from primary nodes in a cluster. (Because eventual consistency is sometimes useful, MongoDB offers eventual consistency, too.)

meghan··on Several thousand MongoDBs without access control on the Internet [pdf]
Thanks for the suggestion, we will be updating the copy to clarify that the packages are the preferred installation method.
meghan··on Several thousand MongoDBs without access control on the Internet [pdf]
We take security seriously at MongoDB. Here is a response on security best practices from the MongoDB CTO & Co-Founder:

http://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/mongodb-security-best-pract...

meghan··on MongoDB Acquires WiredTiger
Here is the blog post from MongoDB's co-founder: http://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/welcome-wiredtiger-mongodb
meghan··on MongoDB writes to be safe/verified by default
Glad that you are having success with MongoDB at scale. Have you considered sharing your experiences? Would be really helpful for others to learn from you.
meghan··on Free Online MongoDB Training by 10gen
I can hook you up with some stickers. meghan @ 10gen.com
meghan··on MongoDB 2.2.0 Released
Blog post with the details is up http://blog.mongodb.org/post/30451575525/mongodb-2-2-release...
meghan··on Don't use MongoDB
It's the same account as the person who submitted the link.
meghan··on Don't use MongoDB
We try to get as much face to face time with the community as possible. Check out 10gen.com/events and 10gen.com/user-groups.
meghan··on 10Gen CEO Dwight Merriman Still Writes His Own Code
Thought this ohloh graph might be interesting: http://www.ohloh.net/p/mongodb/analyses/latest

~30% of the commits on mongodb are Dwight.

meghan··on MongoHQ (YC S11) Raises $417K From Lerer And SV Angel
Congrats Jason & Ben. This is great for the MongoDB ecosystem.
meghan··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2011)
New York City, San Francisco Bay Area, and Europe

10gen, the creators of MongoDB: We are always looking for smart people to join the team. You get paid to work on open source software!

http://www.10gen.com/jobs

meghan··on PgEast 2011 - PostgresSQL conference is in New York City this year (Mar 22-25)
And there is a MongoDB track: https://www.postgresqlconference.org/2011/east/mongo_talks
meghan··on MongoDB vs. Clustrix: Fault Tolerance and Availability
I'd like to correct some factual errors from this article.

1) Failover of a MongoDB Replica Set is totally automated and requires no manual intervention. The replica set remains available for writes as long as a quorum can be established between remaining members. See http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Replica+Sets for more info

2) MongoDB does support different consistency models through Write Concerns and Safe Mode. The client can choose to wait for the transaction to be written to multiple replicas if it wants. See http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Verifying+Propagation+of... for more info

Disclaimer: I work for 10gen

meghan··on MongoDB gotchas for the unaware user
10gen offers training for DBAs: http://www.10gen.com/training

No certification right now but that's good feedback, thanks

meghan··on MongoDB presentations from MongoSV
Sure, will add some slides below the videos. Don't have any plans to transcribe the talks but that is a great idea worth looking into.
meghan··on MongoDB presentations from MongoSV
We're adding more videos today - presentations from Intuit, Yottaa, Wordnik, etc. Keep checking back!
meghan··on Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010)
10gen, the company that started the MongoDB project and provides commercial support for Mongo, is hiring in both NYC and Bay Area offices.

http://www.10gen.com/jobs

meghan··on Ask HN: What problem does Foursquare/Gowalla/Places solve?
It's hard for local businesses to leverage technology for advertising. foursquare and other location-based services allow local businesses -- like restaurants and bars and shops -- to identify, target, and reward customers. The users benefit from deals / discounts with local businesses that are relevant to them. That seems valuable to me.
meghan··on B is for Billion: Wordnik passes 9 billion record mark with MongoDB
Video of this talk is available here: http://blip.tv/file/3621377

This article also has some details: http://www.royans.net/arch/mongodb-migration-from-mysql-at-w...

meghan··on MongoDB: 8m ops/s on 25 servers (320k per server)
Here is a link to the video from the sharding talk at MongoSF

http://blip.tv/file/3597247

meghan··on MongoDB approach to database synchronization
Dwight Merriman's presentation on Replication at MongoSF: http://www.slideshare.net/mongosf/mongodb-replication-dwight...