Journey to MongoDB [Mark Porter]

<p>Listen to more on the StackOverflow Podcast: <a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/08/06/podcast-364-mark-porter-mongodb-database/">https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/08/06/podcast-364-mark-porter-mongodb-database/</a></p><p><strong>Transcript</strong></p><p>markporter <br> </p><p>[00:00:00] <strong>swyx:</strong> This is Mark Porter, the CTO of Mongo DB on his personal journey from relational databases to Mongo DB.   </p><p>[00:00:06] <strong>Mark Porter:</strong> I am a relentless tech geek. I've loved tech my whole life. In fact, my Twitter handle is MarkLovesTech. I have used databases since I was 14 with some really ancient technologies started out on a 4k TRS 80 model one computer. </p><p>We had to program it in assembly language because there wasn't enough memory to use the local basic copy. And I very quickly got into databases and I was talking to someone the other day and he pointed out something I'd never noticed, which is I've oscillated between using databases and building database. </p><p>So I started out at Caltech and NASA using databases for space, data, and chip data. And then I built databases at Oracle versions, 5 6, 7, 8 for about 13 years. And then I used databases at NewsCorp for huge student data systems. And then I built databases at Amazon with Amazon RDS. Then I moved to Grab taxi, which is the Uber of Southeast Asia and use databases to deliver 15 million rides and meals a day, and then came back to Mongo DB. </p><p>And here I am building databases again. I frankly can't get away from this thing.  </p><p>[00:01:20] <strong>Ben Popper:</strong> I love that story. I wonder. Does that mean. You know, at each point you had some sort of frustration or saw some sort of like opportunity for innovation, you know, you kind of would build something, then you'd be the user of it. </p><p>Then you'd realize that like the next sort of turn of the wheel was coming. As you move between those jobs where new paradigms and databases and murders.  </p><p>[00:01:38] <strong>Mark Porter:</strong