Sometimes I write up my thoughts. Sometimes people ask me about them and I talk. Sometimes I get on a stage. Sometimes they are useful (?) Sometimes they just needed to get out of my head. Enjoy! :-)

24 Apr 2026 Mark's User Manual Mark Loves Tech Hopefully this will help us work better together

Nov 2025 Our Best Advice on Communication and Hiring Strategies with Mark Porter, CTO at dbt Labs Modern CTO

11 Apr 2025 What People Get Wrong About Psychological Safety Mark Loves Tech My cliff notes on this excellent article

Nov 2024 A Masterclass in Communication as a Leader with Mark Porter, CTO at dbt Labs Modern CTO

Feb 2024 Data Data Everywhere — And Some Life Lessons LinkedIn

Jul 2023 Celebrating MongoDB, My Journey There, and Looking Towards the Future LinkedIn

Jun 2023 Mark Porter — MongoDB .local NYC 2023 MongoDB .Local NYC 2023 MongoDB had the bravery to challenge 30 years of relational inertia. The data model, the deployment model, and MongoDB Atlas remain amazing. Can MongoDB succeed? Only time will tell.

23 Jul 2022 My MongoDB World 2022 Presentations MongoDB World 2022 — Builder's Fest Three talks I gave at MDBW22 Builder's Fest in NYC: "Is Relational the New COBOL?", "MongoDB's Architectural Advantages", and "Safe Software Deployments". All three slide decks linked from the page.

May 2022 MongoDB CTO: Why On-Prem Software Is Still Big Business Future Most software businesses default to cloud-only without a second thought. The smarter move is to interrogate that assumption and find the right mix of public cloud, multi-cloud, VPN-in-cloud, and traditional on-premises — each workload deserves its own answer.

May 2022 MongoDB CTO: What Today's Developers Need to Succeed InfoWorld Relational snobbery, the triumph of JSON, how companies mismanage developers, and why the third tier needs to evolve.

Feb 2022 #380 Mark Porter, CTO of MongoDB — Making Databases Faster Modern CTO Podcast Databases, developer happiness, and why always being a student of life makes you a better CTO.

Jan 2022 Safe Software Deployment: A Series Mark Loves Tech Five-part series on shipping software without fear: Through the Looking Glass, Overcoming Fear & Loathing, The Goldilocks Gauge, The 180 Rule, and Z-Deployments.

Dec 2021 AWS re:Invent 2021 — Is Relational the New COBOL? AWS re:Invent 2021

Dec 2021 The CTO Journey: Mark Porter of MongoDB Tower Blog How I fell in love with tech, became a manager, and what I've learned about onboarding developers over the years.

Sep 2021 Ways to Prevent Multi-Cloud Mayhem InformationWeek My column on keeping multi-cloud from turning into mayhem — let the workload pick the cloud, not the other way around.

Sep 2021 #34 Mark Porter // CTO MongoDB alphalist.CTO Podcast A wide-ranging conversation on MongoDB, databases, and engineering leadership.

Aug 2021 MongoDB CTO's View of Data Challenges SearchDataManagement Why I joined MongoDB and the data challenges I saw organizations struggling with at the time.

23 Aug 2021 Bonus Episode: Mark Porter, CTO at MongoDB More Than a Refresh A return visit to revisit the topic of engineering culture at MongoDB.

5 Aug 2021 Episode Nine: Mark Porter, CTO at MongoDB More Than a Refresh The original interview — data, the people behind it, and what it's like to lead engineering at MongoDB.

Aug 2021 What's the Blast Radius When Your Database Goes Down? The Stack Overflow Podcast Four decades of building foundational databases, and the trends I was focused on at MongoDB — time-series and serverless.

Mar 2021 The Innovation Tax: How Much Are Unproductive, Unhappy Developers Costing You? MongoDB Blog Most organizations are paying an innovation tax and don't know it. This one gets referenced in my Safe Software Deployments series.

Mar 2021 Forget Databases. You Need a Data Platform. InfoWorld The case for a single platform that processes, stores, secures, and analyzes in real-time — not a warehouse, not a lake.

Mar 2021 The Evolution of Data MongoDB Blog Why we're asking more of our data than ever before, and what that demands from the platforms we build.

Feb 2021 Inside MongoDB's Quest to Make Databases Magical Built In What makes MongoDB unique among data platforms — and why revolutionary products lead to a better developer experience.

Feb 2021 Why a Bad Data Sync Can Tank Your App — and How to Overcome It VentureBeat Data sync bugs are silent killers — here's how to architect around them before they tank your app.

Jan 2021 I Am Mark Porter, CTO at MongoDB. I Love Tech — Ask Me Anything Reddit r/IAmA My January 2021 AMA — databases, careers, and whatever else the internet wanted to know.

Sep 2020 Ep. 19 — Introducing Mark Porter, CTO of MongoDB The MongoDB Podcast My introduction to the MongoDB community as incoming CTO — who I am, what I care about, and what I wanted to build.

Dec 2021 AWS had a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day on Dec 7th, 2021. What happens next? Mark Loves Tech Mark's thoughts on the AWS Service Outage of Dec 7, 2021 -- examining AWS's response during and after the outage, plus implications for affected customers.

Jul 2020 Why Did I Come to MongoDB? Mark Loves Tech People ask me this often enough that I decided to put it on my home page: Aren't you one of the SQL folks? Why would one of you join MongoDB?