Miscellaneous Tech News
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From the MongoDB blog's official announcement....
We announced MongoDB 3.6 in November. Following great community feedback on the 3.6 release candidates, we’re happy to say that 3.6 is now generally available and ready for production deployments. You can download the community version and MongoDB Enterprise Server today.
MongoDB 3.6 is also available on MongoDB Atlas, so you can try out 3.6 or upgrade your existing Atlas clusters to 3.6.
MongoDB 3.6 makes it easier than ever to work with data in the most natural, efficient, and frictionless way possible. In short, MongoDB helps you go faster when building and scaling apps. Key 3.6 features include:
Change streams enable you to build reactive web, mobile and IoT applications that can view, filter, and act on data changes as they occur in the database. Whenever data is changed in MongoDB, downstream systems are automatically notified of the updates in real time. Change streams provide an easy and efficient way to build reactive, event driven apps.
Retryable writes move the complexity of handling transient systems failures from the application to the database. Instead of you having to implement masses of custom, client-side code, MongoDB automatically retries write operations using exactly-once semantics.
With Schema validation, using syntax derived from the proposed IETF JSON Schema standard, we’ve extended the document validation capabilities originally introduced in MongoDB 3.2. Now, DevOps and DBA teams can define a prescribed document structure for each collection, down to the level of individual fields within nested arrays. And you’re able to tune this as you need: lock the schema down, open it up, apply it to a subset of fields – whatever you need for each app or stage of your project.
Binding to localhost by default: with MongoDB 3.6 all MongoDB packages across all platforms refuse all external connections to the database unless explicitly configured otherwise by the administrator. Combined with new IP whitelisting support, administrators can configure MongoDB to only accept external connections on approved IP addresses. These enhancements greatly reduce the risk of unsecured MongoDB instances unintentionally being deployed into production.
Aggregation enhancements support more expressive queries, giving you faster access to data-driven insights. MongoDB’s document data model allows you to model entities in the same way you represent them in code - as complete objects - so you don't need to worry about JOINs. But for analytics it’s useful to join data across multiple collections. We introduced left outer equijoins in MongoDB 3.2, but now we are expanding this with a more powerful $lookup operator to support the equivalent of SQL subqueries and non-equijoins. MongoDB's Connector for BI, which enables MongoDB to be used as a data source in SQL-based analytics and data visualization tools, takes advantage of these enhancements to deliver higher performance, with more analytic operations pushed natively to the database.
MongoDB Atlas is the best way to run MongoDB in the public cloud. MongoDB 3.6 is available as a fully managed service on Atlas, including important new features to support global applications, and with automated scalability and performance optimizations.
Cross-region replication allows Atlas clusters to span multiple cloud provider regions, maintaining continuous availability in the event of geographic outages, and providing optimal customer experience by distributing data closer to users. Atlas now also supports automatic scaling for storage associated with a cluster, making it easier for you to manage capacity. The new Performance Advisor continuously highlights slow-running queries and provides intelligent index recommendations to improve performance.
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Managed Chromebooks need manually rejoined to WiFi.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Well duh, if Google wouldn't have hidden them so well people would have actually used them. They looked like just another plugin and they kept changing where you go to launch the things as well. It almost feels like they purposely killed it.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I really wish GNOME would catch up with KDE Connect.
There was some crappy thing but it used Bluetooth I think. I used it for around 10 mins and it was annoying.
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This should be fun...
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@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
This should be fun...
Wow, that will mean all the redirects of technet to docs.microsoft.com.
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Just think of how long TechNet has been around and all of the resources pointing to articles on TechNet. All of the changes that people are going have to make on their own sites, if they even care.
