DEEP DIVE
Beyond Hyperscalers: MongoDB Offerings Across Europe’s Sovereign Clouds
A practical map of MongoDB offerings across Europe’s sovereign cloud providers. Explore where MongoDB is available, how it is delivered, and access direct links to deploy it across DBaaS, Kubernetes, and managed platforms
FEATURED
mongot doctor: Understanding the Search Layer in MongoDB: Observability and Diagnostics in Practice
A practical exploration of MongoDB Search, focusing on how the search layer operates, why observability matters, and how to approach diagnostics in modern architectures.
by Michele Farinacci
BACKCHANNEL
Understanding the European Digital Stack: Sovereignty, Hyperscalers and the Data Platform Layer
Most data models don’t fail during development. They fail under real workload pressure. Modern architectures demand an application-first mindset, where data structures follow real system behavior.
NOTES
Gödel, Escher, Bach: learning to think by walking in circles
Hofstadter does not proceed in a straight line. He loops, digresses, returns, mirrors himself. Bach’s fugues, Escher’s impossible staircases, and Gödel’s incompleteness theorems speak different formal languages
HOT
From Developer to AI Supervisor
When AI writes the code, the real job moves somewhere else
Something quiet but structural is happening in software engineering. Developers are not disappearing.
They are being repositioned.
BIGTECH
Anthropic’s New AI Can Write 60-Year-Old COBOL Code
Anthropic pushes generative coding further, enabling automated creation of legacy COBOL used in critical enterprise systems.
DEV
MongoDB Data Modeling: Relationships, Data Duplication, and Performance
Most data models don’t fail during development. They fail under real workload pressure. Modern architectures demand an application-first mindset, where data structures follow real system behavior.
SECTION
Thinking Paths
From models to systems that actually work. Agentic architectures, reasoning and planning, RAG pipelines, evaluation, and why many AI demos fail when they meet real data.
ESSAYES
Selected Essays
Thinking beyond trends and announcements. Long-form essays, critical perspectives, and systems thinking on technology and engineering culture.
NOTES
Stay Close to the Work
What breaks. What scales. What survives production.Thoughts on data, AI, systems, and the quiet decisions behind them.