Mark Porter

The company was founded on the concept of scaling rights. Of course, the world has changed in the 15 years to now, you know, many orders of magnitude, more demand on our servers. One of the things we have to build into the product is scalability as a feature. And one of the things I've seen in product after product is scalability is an afterthought. So what you'll see is they'll release a POC.

The company was founded on the concept of scaling rights. Of course, the world has changed in the 15 years to now, you know, many orders of magnitude, more demand on our servers. One of the things we have to build into the product is scalability as a feature. And one of the things I've seen in product after product is scalability is an afterthought. So what you'll see is they'll release a POC.

The company was founded on the concept of scaling rights. Of course, the world has changed in the 15 years to now, you know, many orders of magnitude, more demand on our servers. One of the things we have to build into the product is scalability as a feature. And one of the things I've seen in product after product is scalability is an afterthought. So what you'll see is they'll release a POC.

It'll be awesome. They'll go to market. People adopt the product. And then the product management team comes back to engineering and says, okay, now we need to scale it by 10 or 100x. And they say, oh yeah, now we have to go rewrite it from scratch. My name is Mark Porter and I am the CTO of MongoDB.

It'll be awesome. They'll go to market. People adopt the product. And then the product management team comes back to engineering and says, okay, now we need to scale it by 10 or 100x. And they say, oh yeah, now we have to go rewrite it from scratch. My name is Mark Porter and I am the CTO of MongoDB.

It'll be awesome. They'll go to market. People adopt the product. And then the product management team comes back to engineering and says, okay, now we need to scale it by 10 or 100x. And they say, oh yeah, now we have to go rewrite it from scratch. My name is Mark Porter and I am the CTO of MongoDB.

MongoDB is a company that produces a developer data platform. And that means we produce all the different pieces of software that really makes a developer want to build applications. So from a database, to charts, to analytics, to a mobile solution, and we put it all together in a way that is just so easy for developers.

MongoDB is a company that produces a developer data platform. And that means we produce all the different pieces of software that really makes a developer want to build applications. So from a database, to charts, to analytics, to a mobile solution, and we put it all together in a way that is just so easy for developers.

MongoDB is a company that produces a developer data platform. And that means we produce all the different pieces of software that really makes a developer want to build applications. So from a database, to charts, to analytics, to a mobile solution, and we put it all together in a way that is just so easy for developers.

And frankly, that's kind of our origin story, is our two founders, Elliot Horowitz and Dwight Merriman, were trying to build an application. and the current technology they had available just didn't work. And they were developers, and rather than giving up, they said, I don't know, why don't we just go build it ourselves?

And frankly, that's kind of our origin story, is our two founders, Elliot Horowitz and Dwight Merriman, were trying to build an application. and the current technology they had available just didn't work. And they were developers, and rather than giving up, they said, I don't know, why don't we just go build it ourselves?

And frankly, that's kind of our origin story, is our two founders, Elliot Horowitz and Dwight Merriman, were trying to build an application. and the current technology they had available just didn't work. And they were developers, and rather than giving up, they said, I don't know, why don't we just go build it ourselves?

And so they took some time off from the company they were building, which was DoubleClick, and they actually built MongoDB. And the reason they needed to build it is so that they could do writes at scale, which for any of you techies out there, you know that you always want your database to be able to take your write, or your entire application grinds to a halt.

And so they took some time off from the company they were building, which was DoubleClick, and they actually built MongoDB. And the reason they needed to build it is so that they could do writes at scale, which for any of you techies out there, you know that you always want your database to be able to take your write, or your entire application grinds to a halt.

And so they took some time off from the company they were building, which was DoubleClick, and they actually built MongoDB. And the reason they needed to build it is so that they could do writes at scale, which for any of you techies out there, you know that you always want your database to be able to take your write, or your entire application grinds to a halt.

And then over time, they figured out that they could make it easier for developers by using a document model. And to this day, even though we've done so much over the last 15 years, the whole concept of being able to read and write at scale and the concept of using the document model are still two of the main tenants of MongoDB's success.

And then over time, they figured out that they could make it easier for developers by using a document model. And to this day, even though we've done so much over the last 15 years, the whole concept of being able to read and write at scale and the concept of using the document model are still two of the main tenants of MongoDB's success.

And then over time, they figured out that they could make it easier for developers by using a document model. And to this day, even though we've done so much over the last 15 years, the whole concept of being able to read and write at scale and the concept of using the document model are still two of the main tenants of MongoDB's success.

I joined the board in 2019 and then got so excited with the company and its potential and the fact that fundamentally MongoDB had the chance to change the world that I actually asked to step off the board and step up as CTO.

I joined the board in 2019 and then got so excited with the company and its potential and the fact that fundamentally MongoDB had the chance to change the world that I actually asked to step off the board and step up as CTO.