Sahir Azam & Guillermo Rauch | MongoDB World 2022

we're back in the big apple the cube's coverage of mongodb world 2022. sahir zam is here he's the chief product officer of mongodb and guillermo rauch who's the ceo of versailles hot off the keynotes from this morning guys good job thank you thank you thank you for joining us here yep thanks for having us guillermo when it comes to to modern web development you know the back end the cloud guys got it kind of sewing up you know forget about it but all the

action's in the front end and that's where you are explain versailles yeah so vercell is the company that pioneers front end development as serverless infrastructure so we built an xjs which is the most popular react framework in the world this is what front end engineers choose to build innovative uis beautiful websites companies like dior and github and tick-tock and twitch which you mentioned in the keynote are powering their entire.coms or all of their new parts of their dot coms with nexjs and versailles is the serverless

platform where you can deploy frameworks like in xjs and others like zveldt and vue to uh create really fast experiences on the web so here so serverless i hear that's the hot trend you guys made some announcements today i mean when you look at the we have spending data with our friends at etr right down the street i mean it's just off the charts whether it's amazon google azure functions i mean it's just exploding yeah it's uh i think in many ways it's a natural trend uh you know we talk a lot about in whether it be today's keynote

or another industry uh talks you see around our industry that developers are constantly looking for ways to focus on innovation and the business logic that defines our application and as opposed to managing the plumbing and met management of infrastructure and we've seen this happen over and over again across every layer of the stack and so for us you know mongodb we have a bit of you know sort of a lens of a broad spectrum of the market we certainly have you know large enterprises that are modernizing existing kind of core

systems then we have developers all over the world who are building the next big best thing and that's what led us to partner with versailles is just the bleeding edge of developers building in a new way in a much more efficient way and we want to make sure we provide a data platform that fits naturally in the way they want to work so explain to our audience the trade-offs of serverless and and i want to get into sort of how you resolve that and then i want to hear from guillermo what it means for developers yeah and in our case we don't view it as an either or there are certain workloads and

definitely certain companies that will gravitate towards a more traditional database infrastructure where they're choosing the configuration of their cluster they want full control over it and that provides you know certain benefits around cost predictability or isolation and or perceived benefits at least of those things and customers will gravitate towards that now on the flip side if you're building a new application or you want the ability to scale seamlessly and not have to worry about any of the plumbing serverless is clearly the easier model so over the long term we certainly expect to see as a mix of things more

and more serverless workloads being built on our platform and just generally in the industry which is why we leaned in so heavily on investing in atlas serverless but the flexibility to not be forced into a particular model but to get the same database experience across your application and even switch between them is an important characteristic for us as we build and you stress the cost efficiency and not having to worry about you know starting cold you've architected around that what does that mean for a developer

for a developer it means that you kind of get the best of both worlds right like you get the best possible performance front-end developers are extremely sensitive to this that's why us pioneering this kind of serverless front-end has put us in a very privileged position because we have to deliver that really quick time to first buy that really quick paint so any of the old trade-offs of serverless are not accepted by the market you have to be extremely fast you have to be instant to deliver that front end content so what we talked about