MongoDB $weeklyUpdate #84 (August 26, 2022): Learning with Luce and MongoDB in Singapore!
Tags: mongodb, atlashackathon, apache, serverless
Published: 2022-08-26 18:15:39

It’s Friday. You know what that means…

## 🎉 Welcome to the MongoDB $weeklyUpdate! 🎉

Each week, we bring you the latest and greatest from our Develop Relations team — from blog posts and YouTube videos to meet-ups and conferences — so you don’t miss a thing.

## 💻 What’s Up on Dev Center?

Everything you see on [Dev Center](https://www.mongodb.com/developer/) is by developers, for developers. This is where we publish articles, tutorials, quickstarts, and beyond. 🚀

### Featured Post

[Keeping Your Costs Down with MongoDB Atlas Serverless Instances](https://www.mongodb.com/developer/products/atlas/keep-mongodb-serverless-costs-low/)

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In this article, Mark Smith explains how you can use Atlas serverless instances to pay for the exact queries that you run, and the instance will automatically be scaled up or down as your usage scales up or down. Neat!

### Other Shout-Outs

#### ➡️ [Paginations 2.0: Why I Would Choose MongoDB](https://www.mongodb.com/developer/products/mongodb/paginations-why-choose-mongodb/) by John Page

#### ➡️ [Streaming Data with Apache Spark and MongoDB](https://www.mongodb.com/developer/languages/python/streaming-data-apache-spark-mongodb/) by Robert Walters


## 🔦 MVP Spotlight: Nic Raboy

Each week, we feature a member of our team or a brilliant partner we’re collaborating with. This week, get to know Nic!

![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/8c2eyexvc8pca2g3l1n4.jpg)

Nic is a Staff Developer Advocate.

Fun fact: "I'm the self-appointed Pokémon champion on the team. I play the trading card game and the Nintendo games. It's something I can enjoy with my wife and kids."

![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/62dkeka2jmtnjt6opjuq.png)

Pet peeve: "People who continuously fail to follow through on their promises. If you promise something, it's important to me that it happens."

Be sure to check out [Nic's website](https://www.nraboy.com/)!

## 🗓️ Mark Your Calendars

Every month, all across the globe, we organize, attend, speak at, and sponsor events, meetups, and shindigs to bring the DevRel community together. Here’s what we’ve got cooking:

[Singapore MUG: Inaugural Meetup!](https://www.mongodb.com/community/forums/t/singapore-mug-inaugural-meetup/179479): September 1st 2022, 4:00am – 6:30am, (GMT-07:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)

## 🔥 What’s Hot on our Community Platform

The [MongoDB Community Platform](https://www.mongodb.com/community/forums/) is chock full of interactions with our product and engineering teams along with thousands of other MongoDB and Realm users.

Anshul Bhardwaj is still hard at work on the [100 Days of Code](https://www.mongodb.com/community/forums/t/the-journey-of-100daysofcode-anshul-bhardwaj/179579) challenge. Get all the latest updates!

![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/gpcapyoak994r4uk5yy0.png)

## 🎙️ Stop, Collaborate, and Listen

If reading’s not your jam, you might love catching up on our [podcast episodes](https://listen.casted.us/public/115/The-MongoDB-Podcast-b02cf624).

*Latest Episode*
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*Past Episodes*
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Not listening on Spotify? We got you! We're also on [Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mongodb-podcast/id1500452446), [PlayerFM](https://player.fm/series/the-mongodb-podcast), [Podtail](https://podtail.com/en/podcast/the-mongodb-podcast/), and [Listen Notes](https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-mongodb-podcast-mongodb-0g6fUKMDN_y/). (We’d be forever grateful if you left us a review.)

Catch the latest on YouTube with @lucecarter1, @stanimiravlaeva, and Abirami Sukumaran. 

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