The MongoDB Podcast

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Whether you're building your first app or scaling to millions of users, The MongoDB Podcast brings you the conversations worth having. Developers, founders, and technical leaders share how they architect systems, navigate hard decisions, and build with AI.

  1. How Rox Is Rebuilding the CRM for the AI Era on MongoDB

    APR 28

    How Rox Is Rebuilding the CRM for the AI Era on MongoDB

    Watch this episode in Video Format on Spotify. Are autonomous agents about to replace your traditional CRM? In this episode, Anaiya Raisinghani (Sr. Tech. Evangelist, AI Startups & Ventures at MongoDB) sits down with Ishan Mukherjee, Co-Founder and CEO of ROX. They dive under the hood of ROX, the world’s largest-scale revenue agent company that is building AI to handle the end-to-end revenue cycle autonomously.Ishan breaks down his founder journey—from Amazon Robotics to Apple's Knowledge Graph—and opens up about the technical realities of building AI agents today.What you’ll learn in this episode: The AI Agent Architecture: Discover ROX's "three-layered cake" approach, including their context system, Agent Swarms, and application layer.The Database Migration: Why ROX started on DynamoDB for speed but ultimately migrated to MongoDB to handle massive spikes and unstructured data at scale.Agents vs. SaaS: The fundamental difference between traditional SaaS platforms (where humans do the work) and autonomous agents (where the AI does the outreach, research, and contracts). Advice for AI Founders: Why you need to be highly opinionated about your architecture but extremely iterative with your product experience.⏱️ Chapter Timestamps00:00 - Intro & Ishan's Journey 01:57 - What is ROX? 04:52 - ROX's Technical Architecture 06:56 - Migrating to MongoDB 08:17 - Why Context is King 11:13 - Internal AI Adoption 13:05 - The Future of AI and B2B 14:33 - Lightning Round

    15 min
  2. Capgemini’s GenPAL: Payments Data Monetization in Action with MongoDB

    APR 21

    Capgemini’s GenPAL: Payments Data Monetization in Action with MongoDB

    Watch this episode as a video on Spotify!In this episode, Luis Pazmino, Industry Principal for Financial Services at MongoDB, sits down with Saurabh Khandelwal from Capgemini to explore how financial institutions can transform payments data into a strategic revenue engine.The conversation dives into GenPAL, Capgemini’s solution powered by MongoDB’s modern data platform, and how it enables organizations to move beyond data storage toward real-time intelligence, AI-driven insights, and data monetisation.In this episode, we discuss:• Evolving Payments Landscape: Key shifts shaping data strategies and opportunities in payments• Modern Data Foundations: Building scalable, real-time architectures to support high-volume transactions and compliance needs• From Data to Value: Turning payments data into actionable insights and new revenue streams• AI at Scale: Leveraging gen AI and agentic AI for fraud detection, customer intelligence, and operational efficiency• Pragmatic Modernization: How to adopt AI and modern data platforms without a “big bang” approachWhether you’re a fintech innovator or a financial institution navigating legacy systems, this episode offers practical insights on unlocking the full value of payments data with AI and modern data platforms. Timestamps 00:09 – Introduction 01:05 – Introducing GenPAL 02:38 – The tactical shift: From standard BI to Agent AI 04:56 – Identifying strains 06:59 – Solving payment failures 08:48 – Sub-millisecond latency 12:48 – The "Experience Gap" 15:01 – Strategic advice 18:14 – High-level architecture 21:35 – Real-world success 24:09 – Future outlook

    45 min
  3. Why Python Devs Are Ditching Raw Drivers for Beanie

    APR 15

    Why Python Devs Are Ditching Raw Drivers for Beanie

    Watch this episode in video format on Spotify! If you're building Python applications on MongoDB and still writing raw queries by hand, you're leaving a lot of developer productivity on the table. Beanie, the async-first ODM built on Pydantic, was created to fix exactly that — and this episode goes deep on how and why it works. You'll learn how Beanie maps Python objects to MongoDB documents without sacrificing atomicity or performance, why async-first design matters for modern Python stacks, how schema migrations actually work in a document database, and what the deprecation of Motor means for your existing codebase. The episode also covers Beanie's integration with FastAPI, how it handles indexes and aggregation pipelines under the hood, and what's coming in the next phase of the library. Ramon, the creator of Beanie and a senior software engineer at Microsoft, built this library five years ago to fill a gap nobody else had addressed. He's joined by Shubham, MongoDB's product manager for Python client libraries, for a live demo and Q&A. Follow The MongoDB Podcast so you never miss an episode. - [00:00] Introduction & Guest Welcome[01:00] What Is Beanie? The ODM Explained[04:10] ODM vs ORM — What's the Difference?[05:20] Why Ramon Built Beanie (The Origin Story)[06:30] Core Design Principles: Atomicity & Async-First[08:00] FastAPI + MongoDB: The Rising Python Stack[11:00] Bonnet: The Synchronous Beanie Backport[12:55] Live Demo: Defining Document Schemas with Pydantic[16:00] Nested Documents, Links & Polymorphic Collections[18:45] Best Practices for Schema Design[20:30] Index Management in Beanie[22:40] Complex Queries: Beanie vs Raw PyMongo[24:30] Aggregation Pipelines in Beanie[28:05] Schema Migrations: Forward, Backward & Freefall[31:30] Motor Is Deprecated — What That Means for You[34:00] Beanie v2: What Changed and What Didn't[36:20] FastAPI, Flask & Django Integration[37:45] What's Next for Beanie: Performance & Lambda Optimization[39:30] How to Contribute to Beanie[41:00] Resources, Community & Audience Q&A

    47 min
  4. From 7 Days to 2 Minutes: Automating Workflows with Knowledge Graphs

    MAR 31

    From 7 Days to 2 Minutes: Automating Workflows with Knowledge Graphs

    Are you still relying on OCR for your enterprise AI? You're losing critical context. In this episode, Anaiya Raisinghani (Sr. Tech. Evangelist, AI Startups & Ventures at MongoDB) sits down with Adityavardhan Agrawal, Co-Founder and CEO of Morphik. They dive deep into how Morphik is helping developers and enterprises understand complex, unstructured data and automate high-leverage workflows. Adi breaks down the limitations of standard RAG pipelines and reveals why they turned to Vision Language Models (VLMs) to process complex documents like architectural floorplans. What you’ll learn in this episode: The OCR Trap: Why text extraction is inherently lossy for complex documents and how VLMs generate better embeddings. The RAG Misconception: Why getting high-quality context requires much more than just plain vector search. Database Architecture: Why Morphik hit the limits of Postgres/JSONB for dynamic datasets and how migrating to MongoDB Atlas simplified their multi-tenancy and querying. Massive ROI: How one manufacturing customer used Morphik to slash their quote generation time from 7 days to under 2 minutes. The Future of Knowledge: Building self-healing, self-updating data layers that leverage MQL. (Want to start building? You can use Morphik's API, Python/TypeScript SDKs, or grab the Docker image from GitHub today!) ⏱️ Chapter Timestamps 00:00 - Intro: Meet Adi and Morphik 01:18 - APIs, SDKs, and Getting Started with Morphik 02:28 - The Lightbulb Moment: Why Standard AI Fails on Unstructured Data 04:44 - The Biggest Misconception About RAG 06:24 - Vision Language Models (VLMs) vs. Traditional OCR 08:35 - Reducing Entropy: Combining Embeddings with Knowledge Graphs 10:13 - Architecture Deep-Dive: Hitting the Limits of Postgres & JSONB 12:06 - Why Morphik Migrated to MongoDB Atlas 13:24 - Simplifying Multi-Tenancy at Scale 15:13 - Ensuring Data Security and Reliability 16:33 - Accelerating Growth with MongoDB for Startups 18:10 - Real-World Impact: Cutting Quote Generation from 7 Days to 2 Minutes 20:15 - The Future: Self-Healing Data Layers and Native MQL

    22 min
  5. From Data to Decisions: Powering gen/Agentic AI with Capgemini & MongoDB

    MAR 19

    From Data to Decisions: Powering gen/Agentic AI with Capgemini & MongoDB

    Read more about Capgemini's Digital Cloud Platform → https://cloud.mongodb.com/ecosystem/c...In this episode of the MongoDB Podcast, Apoorva is joined by Vinay Makkaji from Capgemini and Farid Mohammad from MongoDB to discuss how enterprises are powering the next wave of Agentic AI applications. The conversation explores the shift from AI experimentation to real-world deployment, including AI agents, RAG architectures, and large-scale data modernization.They also unpack how the MongoDB–Capgemini partnership enables organizations to build scalable, production-ready AI solutions through unified data management and modern architectures. Tune in to hear practical use cases, industry examples, and where enterprise AI is headed next.Sign-up for a free cluster → https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/r...Subscribe to MongoDB YouTube→ https://mdb.link/subscribe 00:00:00 Introduction to the MongoDB Podcast 00:00:58 Meet the Experts: Vinay Makaji & Fared Muhammad 00:03:09 The Three Phases of genAI Evolution 00:04:47 Shifting from Generative to Agentic AI 00:06:55 Why AI is a System, Not Just a Model 00:10:48 The Power of Technology Partnerships 00:17:11 Case Study: Predictive Maintenance in Oil & Gas 00:20:18 How Agentic Systems Prevent $250k/Hour Downtime 00:24:22 The Future: Mainframe Modernization & Industrial IoT 00:28:28 Key Takeaway: Partnerships Build Outcomes 00:30:22 Final Advice: Data Strategy is the Foundation

    31 min
  6. Don't Build Your Own AI (Unless You Have To)

    MAR 6

    Don't Build Your Own AI (Unless You Have To)

    Are you trying to figure out if your team should build an AI model from scratch or integrate an off-the-shelf solution? You aren’t alone. In this episode of the MongoDB Podcast, Shane McAlister sits down with Akshaya Murthy, Director of AI Transformation at Zendesk, to decode the maze of building enterprise AI products. They dive into why integrating is often the winning move for speed-to-market, the hidden costs of custom models, and why bad data will break even the most perfect transformer model. What you’ll learn in this episode: The Build vs. Buy Calculus: Why lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and rapid deployment favor integration for most enterprises. Spotting "AI Washing": How to avoid vendor buzzword salads and focus on actual problem-solving and ROI. Architectural Must-Haves: Why your AI stack needs modular API layers, model hot-swapping, and CI/CD pipelines just like your standard code. The "Garbage In, Hype Out" Rule: Why a solid data strategy and a centralized single source of truth are non-negotiable. Ready to stop experimenting and start delivering real AI value? Tune in now.

    53 min
  7. How to Build Production-Ready AI Agents: MongoDB Atlas + Google Vertex AI

    FEB 23

    How to Build Production-Ready AI Agents: MongoDB Atlas + Google Vertex AI

    In this episode, Michael Lynn (MongoDB) and Yang Li (Google Cloud) break down the architectural blueprint for building intelligent, production-grade applications. Move beyond simple RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and explore the world of AI Agents. What you’ll learn: The Google Cloud AI stack: Vertex AI, Agent Space, and Model Garden. Deep-dive integration: Connecting MongoDB Atlas with BigQuery and Dataflow. Real-world Demo: Building a grocery store AI assistant using Gemini and Vector Search. Startup Perks: How to access up to $350k in Google Cloud credits and $10k in MongoDB credits.

    35 min
  8. EP. 271 The "Vibe Coding" Controversy: What Devs Are Getting Wrong About AI

    09/25/2025

    EP. 271 The "Vibe Coding" Controversy: What Devs Are Getting Wrong About AI

    Everyone's talking about AI taking over coding jobs, but what's the real story? Shane McAllister and DataCamp's Richie Cotton dive into the "vibe coding" phenomenon and expose the biggest misconceptions developers have about AI. Learn how to shift your mindset from a pure coder to a "vibe curator" and future-proof your career. Don't miss the full video discussion, available to watch now in the Spotify app.

    1h 2m
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Whether you're building your first app or scaling to millions of users, The MongoDB Podcast brings you the conversations worth having. Developers, founders, and technical leaders share how they architect systems, navigate hard decisions, and build with AI.

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