S9 Bonus: Mark Porter, MongoDB (Replay)

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Mark Porter has always been fascinated with puzzles, so tech just fit for him and a great journey for him. He got his first 4k computer in middle school, and then moved into doing programming for the Department of Education. His big learning from this was that you can use tech to do social good. He's married with 5 kids, and as he puts it, they put up with his deep tech obsession. Mark joined the board of MongoDB in 2019. What got him excited about the company was the world changing nature of the product. So much so, that he asked to step off the board to be CTO - and carry the banner to the developer community about the power of their doc based, distributed system performing DB transactions. This is Mark's story with MongoDB. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	The company was founded on the concept of scaling rights.
0:06.0	Of course the world has changed in the 15 years to now, you know, many orders of magnitude, more demand on our servers.
0:13.0	One of the things we have to build into the product is scalability as a feature.
0:18.0	And one of the things I've seen in product after product
0:21.4	is scalability as an afterthought.
0:24.2	So what you'll see is they'll release a POC,
0:26.4	it'll be awesome, they'll go to market,
0:28.3	people adopt the product,
0:30.1	and then the product management team comes back to engineering
0:32.6	and says, okay, now we need to scale it by 10 or 100X.
0:35.4	And they say, oh yeah, now we have to go rewrite it from scratch.
0:42.1	My name is Mark Porter, and I am the CTO of MongoDB.
0:59.2	This is Code Story, the podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share in the critical moments of what it takes to change in industry and build and lead.
1:01.1	A team that has your back.
1:09.0	I'm your host, Noah Laphart, and today how Mark Porter stepped off the board and into the role as CTO.
1:13.0	And continue to build faster with MongoDB.
1:14.7	All this and more.
1:16.0	On Code Story.
1:25.2	Mark Porter has always been fascinated with puzzles, so tech just fit and has been a great journey for him.
1:25.9	He got his first 4K computer in middle school
1:28.8	and then moved into doing programming
1:30.5	for the Department of Education.
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