{"id":19350,"date":"2022-11-28T18:06:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T18:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/11\/28\/mongodbs-dev-ittycheria-on-how-the-cloud-is-expanding-developers-influence\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T18:06:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T18:06:52","slug":"mongodbs-dev-ittycheria-on-how-the-cloud-is-expanding-developers-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/11\/28\/mongodbs-dev-ittycheria-on-how-the-cloud-is-expanding-developers-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"MongoDB’s Dev Ittycheria on how the cloud is expanding developers’ influence"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The cloud is evolving with more horsepower, higher-level services and industry-specific capabilities. It\u2019s an evolution that\u2019s been termed the \u201csupercloud\u201d and it\u2019s one that the database firm MongoDB Inc.<\/a> has eagerly taken advantage of to boost its standing with its hardcore developer following.<\/p>\n

Speaking to theCUBE industry analyst John Furrier during an exclusive interview on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media\u2019s video studio, ahead of AWS re:Invent<\/a>, MongoDB Chief Executive Dev Ittycheria said developers are choosing to build on MongoDB because it\u2019s the fastest way for them to innovate.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a bunch of companies building machine learning applications on top of MongoDB, such as Rent the Runway, Bosch and Mount Sinai Health System,\u201d Ittycheria said. \u201cThe reason they\u2019re doing that is they get the benefits of being able to build and work with data faster than any other platform, and it\u2019s highly scalable and performant in a way that no other platform offers. They can run their workloads both locally in one availability zone or they could be anywhere in the world, over 100 different regions across multiple clouds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Developer speed is a proxy for innovation<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The supercloud is transforming the role of developers. With its the ease of use, the self-service functionality and other developer-friendly tools, they\u2019re becoming more productive and more integral to the digital transformation of businesses today.<\/p>\n

Ittycheria said this is happening because developer productivity is really just a proxy for innovation. The faster developers can move, the faster they can push out new code, he said. And it\u2019s code that powers digital transformation. \u201cThe faster they can iterate and build new solutions, or add more capabilities on existing applications, the faster you can innovate to seize new opportunities or respond to new threats in your business,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

As a result, developers are no longer just some \u201cside hustle\u201d whom C-suite executives think about once in a while. Rather, they\u2019re becoming core to the business.<\/p>\n

\u201cDevelopers have amassed an enormous amount of power and influence,\u201d Ittycheria said. \u201cTheir engineering teams are front and center in terms of how they think about building capabilities and building their business. \u201cEvery company is becoming a software company, because it all starts with software. Software enables, defines or creates almost every company\u2019s value proposition.\u201d<\/p>\n

MongoDB as supercloud<\/h3>\n

Although Ittycheria said AWS has clearly been customer-obsessed and innovative in providing what some have described as a distinct tool for each job, he think most customers now want a simpler approach. \u201cWhat we have found from talking to our customers is that in some ways, the onus is on the customer to figure out which building block to use to be able to stitch together the applications and solutions they want to build,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat we have done is taken an opinionated point of view and said, \u2018We will enable you to do that using one data platform.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

AWS today offers about a dozen different types of databases, Ittycheria noted. \u201cBased on our conversations with customers, we don\u2019t think that having a tool for every job makes sense because over time, the tax and cost of learning, managing and supporting those different tools doesn\u2019t make a lot of sense or just becomes cost-prohibitive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Instead, he thinks \u201cone data platform, one elegant user experience, one way to address the broadest set of use cases is a better way. But clearly customers have a choice. They can use AWS\u2019 primitives, and the second layer of services as you described, or they can use us. Fortunately, we\u2019ve seen a lot of customers come to us with our approach.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speed vs. cost<\/h3>\n

Ittycheria also thinks the world of cloud computing is moving from a focus on speed to a focus on cost optimization.\u00a0\u201cPeople still value speed, but they want to do it at some sort of predictable cost model,\u201d he explained. \u201cThat\u2019s where we think having one platform, by definition, enables vendor consolidation in way for people to cut costs so that they can still move fast, but they don\u2019t have to incur the tax of using a whole bunch of different point tools. So we\u2019re well positioned.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the complete interview:<\/p>\n