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! :-)
11 Apr 2025
What People Get Wrong About Psychological Safety
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My cliff notes on this excellent article
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.
Jan 2022
Safe Software Deployment: A Series
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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 had a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day on Dec 7th, 2021. What happens next?
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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?
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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?