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title: "Latest reads"
description: "The engineering internet, summarised so you can actually read it."
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# Latest reads
> The engineering internet, summarised so you can actually read it.

## Articles

### [MongoDB Community Edition to Atlas: A Migration Masterclass With BharatPE](https://yomu.fyi/post/mongodb-community-edition-to-atlas-a-migration-masterclass-with-bharat.md)
- Company: [MongoDB](https://yomu.fyi/company/mongodb.md)
- Author: Nick Bell
- Published: Sep 21, 2025
- Type: Problem & solution

BharatPE, an Indian fintech processing over ₹12,000 crore monthly across 450 cities, operated a 45-terabyte self-hosted MongoDB Community Edition deployment. Managing three sharded three-node clusters resulted in uneven data distribution, high maintenance costs, scaling friction, and disaster recovery gaps under strict regulatory requirements. To modernize infrastructure, the database operations team partnered with MongoDB to execute a structured five-stage migration to MongoDB Atlas. The initiative utilized mongosync for secure data transition alongside environment mirroring and automated integrity validation scripts. Transitioning to MongoDB Atlas yielded a 40 percent improvement in query response times and provided automated failover backed by a 99.995 percent uptime SLA.


### [Scaleway on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥](https://yomu.fyi/post/scaleway-on-hugging-face-inference-providers.md)
- Company: [Hugging Face](https://yomu.fyi/company/hugging-face.md)
- Author: Guillaume Noale, Franck Pagny, Fred Bardolle, Guillaume Calmettes, Constance Morales, Célina Hanouti, Julien Chaumond, Simon Brandeis, Lucain Pouget
- Published: Sep 19, 2025
- Type: Announcement

Scaleway is integrated as a supported serverless Inference Provider on the Hugging Face Hub, expanding model deployment options across Hub model pages and official client SDKs for JavaScript and Python. Operating out of European data centers located in Paris, France, Scaleway Generative APIs host open-weight models including gpt-oss, Qwen3, DeepSeek R1, and Gemma 3 with structured outputs, function calling, multimodal processing, and sub-200ms first-token response times. Developers can route inference requests using their Hugging Face tokens or supply direct Scaleway API keys. Billing for routed requests charges standard provider rates starting at €0.20 per million tokens without markups, while direct requests bill to Scaleway accounts. Hugging Face PRO subscribers receive two dollars of monthly inference credits applicable across providers.


### [Introducing Notion 3.0](https://yomu.fyi/post/introducing-notion-3-0.md)
- Company: [Notion](https://yomu.fyi/company/notion.md)
- Author: Akshay Kothari
- Published: Sep 18, 2025
- Type: Announcement

Notion 3.0 introduces Notion AI Agents that can create documents, build databases, search across tools, and execute multi-step workflows inside a workspace. Agents can perform up to 20 minutes of autonomous work across hundreds of pages, including researching information, synthesising findings, creating structured databases, and notifying users when tasks finish. Users can personalise an Agent through a Notion page containing instructions and context, including task triage, response formatting, and reference information; templates can add specialised skills. The launch also includes database row permissions, new AI connectors, and additional MCP integrations, while Custom Agents are planned to run on schedules or triggers and share workflows with teams.


### [Navigating the AI storm: How to harness the power of AI without being crushed by it](https://yomu.fyi/post/navigating-the-ai-storm-how-to-harness-the-power-of-ai-without-being-c.md)
- Company: [Intercom](https://yomu.fyi/company/intercom.md)
- Author: Chris Murray
- Published: Sep 18, 2025
- Type: Explainer

Support leaders are being asked to preserve customer experience and operational performance while becoming AI experts and leading high-lift, cross-functional implementations. Before AI, support was often treated as a cost center; now executives may demand aggressive AI metrics without understanding the resources, risks, and work still required. The proposed response is to harness the change by learning AI deeply, testing multiple vendors through trials, choosing a durable partner, and defining benchmarks and phased implementation plans. Support leaders should also explain why deflecting 50% of inquiries does not justify cutting staffing by 50%, given coverage, service-level redundancy, growth, attrition, and work beyond direct inquiries. The article ultimately argues that visible ownership, concise project management, and weekly or bi-weekly executive updates can reposition support as a value driver rather than a cost center.


### [Modernizing Core Insurance Systems: Breaking the Batch Bottleneck](https://yomu.fyi/post/modernizing-core-insurance-systems-breaking-the-batch-bottleneck.md)
- Company: [MongoDB](https://yomu.fyi/company/mongodb.md)
- Author: Vinod Bagal, Jagpreet Singh
- Published: Sep 18, 2025
- Type: Problem & solution

Migrating core insurance platforms from legacy relational databases with PL/SQL to Java and MongoDB Atlas frequently degrades batch processing performance. Like-for-like migrations can cause batch jobs to run 25 to 30 times slower due to high network round-trips, inefficient per-record operations, and under-utilized bulk capabilities. To resolve these bottlenecks, an optimization framework was developed that leverages MongoDB native bulkWrite operations, intelligent reference data prefetching, and parallel execution. An architecture combining a Spring Boot controller and a dedicated executor framework partitions workloads across threads or event processors. This framework recovered lost performance, completing previously failing batch jobs within service-level agreements and achieving 10 to 15 times better execution speeds than legacy systems in certain workloads.


### [MongoDB.local NYC 2025：定义 AI 时代的理想数据库](https://yomu.fyi/post/mongodb-local-nyc-2025-ai-cn.md)
- Company: [MongoDB](https://yomu.fyi/company/mongodb.md)
- Published: Sep 18, 2025
- Type: Announcement

The page associated with the title “MongoDB.local NYC 2025: Defining the Ideal Database for the AI Era” is rendered as a MongoDB Resources page rather than an event article. Its metadata describes a collection of webinars, video presentations, white papers, datasheets, and other resources, with controls for content type and language. The visible resource content includes “MongoDB Search Fundamentals: Powering Modern Search Experiences,” which presents MongoDB Search as an integrated full-text search capability and covers lexical search, search indexes, autocomplete, fuzzy queries, scoring, filters, and facets. The provided text does not state details about the NYC event or establish a conclusion about an ideal database for AI.


### [MongoDB.local NYC 2025: Defining the Ideal Database for the AI Era](https://yomu.fyi/post/mongodb-local-nyc-2025-defining-the-ideal-database-for-the-ai-era.md)
- Company: [MongoDB](https://yomu.fyi/company/mongodb.md)
- Author: Dev Ittycheria, President and CEO, MongoDB
- Published: Sep 18, 2025
- Type: Announcement

At MongoDB.local NYC, MongoDB introduced new database capabilities, AI integrations, and modernization tools designed for agentic and generative AI workloads. The release of MongoDB 8.2 arrives alongside public previews of Search and Vector Search for both MongoDB Community Edition and Enterprise Server. MongoDB also highlighted Voyage AI embedding models and rerankers to improve retrieval accuracy across raw data, metadata, and embeddings. To address the costs and constraints of legacy infrastructure, the new MongoDB Application Modernization Platform combines AI-assisted tooling and specialized expertise to migrate legacy systems. According to MongoDB, early migrations using this platform run two to three times faster, while code rewriting tasks accelerate by an order of magnitude.


### [MongoDB.local NYC 2025: Definiendo la base de datos ideal para la era de la IA](https://yomu.fyi/post/mongodb-local-nyc-2025-definiendo-la-base-de-datos-ideal-para-la-era-d.md)
- Company: [MongoDB](https://yomu.fyi/company/mongodb.md)
- Author: Dev Ittycheria, President and CEO, MongoDB
- Published: Sep 18, 2025
- Type: Announcement

At MongoDB.local NYC 2025, MongoDB introduced new capabilities and product updates tailored for artificial intelligence workloads. MongoDB 8.2 was unveiled alongside public previews of full-text and vector search for both MongoDB Community Edition and Enterprise Server. The company also detailed its integration with Voyage AI embedding and reranking models to deliver precision retrieval across raw data, metadata, and vectors. To address legacy infrastructure migration hurdles, MongoDB launched the Application Modernization Platform, which combines AI-assisted tooling and specialized workflows to accelerate legacy application refactoring two to three times faster. These architectural updates aim to position the JSON document model as the persistent memory and context store required by autonomous, agentic AI workflows.


### [MongoDB.local NYC 2025 : définir la base de données idéale à l'ère de l'IA](https://yomu.fyi/post/mongodb-local-nyc-2025-de-finir-la-base-de-donne-es-ide-ale-a-l-e-re-d.md)
- Company: [MongoDB](https://yomu.fyi/company/mongodb.md)
- Author: Dev Ittycheria, President and CEO, MongoDB
- Published: Sep 18, 2025
- Type: Announcement

At the MongoDB.local NYC 2025 event, MongoDB unveiled several platform updates aimed at modernizing enterprise database architectures and supporting emerging agentic artificial intelligence workloads. The newly released MongoDB 8.2 version provides enhanced performance alongside expanded developer features across the broader document database ecosystem. The company also integrated Voyage AI embedding and reranking models to improve context retrieval precision and efficiency when building production-grade AI systems. Furthermore, dedicated Search and Vector Search capabilities have reached general availability across both MongoDB Community Edition and Enterprise Server environments. To streamline infrastructure transitions, the newly introduced Application Modernization Platform leverages AI-powered tooling and specialized techniques to migrate legacy database systems two to three times faster.


### [MongoDB.local NYC 2025: Definindo o Banco de Dados Ideal para a Era da IA](https://yomu.fyi/post/mongodb-local-nyc-2025-definindo-o-banco-de-dados-ideal-para-a-era-da.md)
- Company: [MongoDB](https://yomu.fyi/company/mongodb.md)
- Author: Dev Ittycheria, President and CEO, MongoDB
- Published: Sep 18, 2025
- Type: Announcement

At MongoDB.local NYC, new product capabilities were unveiled to support modern enterprise workloads and artificial intelligence applications. The release of MongoDB 8.2 delivers improved performance alongside embedding and reranking models from Voyage AI for AI application development. Additionally, search and vector search capabilities have entered public preview for both MongoDB Community Edition and Enterprise Server across customer runtime environments. To address the high operational costs of legacy database systems, MongoDB introduced the Application Modernization Platform to accelerate migration and automated code rewriting using AI-driven tooling. These capabilities position the JSON-based document database as a foundational data layer providing persistent state, contextual retrieval, and memory for agentic AI systems.


### [MongoDB.local NYC 2025: AI 시대를 위한 이상적인 데이터베이스 정의](https://yomu.fyi/post/mongodb-local-nyc-2025-ai.md)
- Company: [MongoDB](https://yomu.fyi/company/mongodb.md)
- Author: Dev Ittycheria, President and CEO, MongoDB
- Published: Sep 18, 2025
- Type: Announcement

MongoDB presented multiple updates at MongoDB.local NYC 2025 aimed at supporting modern AI workloads and enterprise modernization. The event detailed MongoDB 8.2 alongside Voyage AI embedding models and rerankers designed to enhance accuracy and efficiency in AI applications. Search and vector search capabilities have expanded into public preview for MongoDB Community Edition and Enterprise Server. Furthermore, the company launched the MongoDB Application Modernization Platform, which combines AI-driven tools and expert workflows to migrate legacy systems to MongoDB two to three times faster. MongoDB positions its JSON document model as a foundation providing memory, facts, and state continuity for agentic AI applications.


### [MongoDB.local NYC 2025: Definition der idealen Datenbank für das KI-Zeitalter](https://yomu.fyi/post/mongodb-local-nyc-2025-definition-der-idealen-datenbank-fu-r-das-ki-ze.md)
- Company: [MongoDB](https://yomu.fyi/company/mongodb.md)
- Author: Dev Ittycheria, President and CEO, MongoDB
- Published: Sep 18, 2025
- Type: Announcement

MongoDB unveiled several core database updates aimed at supporting artificial intelligence workloads during MongoDB.local NYC 2025. The release of MongoDB 8.2 introduces performance enhancements alongside Voyage AI embedding models and rerankers for AI applications. Furthermore, Search and Vector Search are now available in public preview for both MongoDB Community Edition and MongoDB Enterprise Server. To address the costs and operational friction of legacy systems, MongoDB launched the Application Modernization Platform (AMP), which combines AI-powered tools with specialized talent to accelerate database migrations. These capabilities position the JSON-based document model to supply the persistent state, memory, and retrieval mechanisms required by emerging agentic AI architectures.


### [MongoDB.local NYC 2025: Definire il database ideale per l'era dell'AI](https://yomu.fyi/post/mongodb-local-nyc-2025-definire-il-database-ideale-per-l-era-dell-ai.md)
- Company: [MongoDB](https://yomu.fyi/company/mongodb.md)
- Author: Dev Ittycheria, President and CEO, MongoDB
- Published: Sep 18, 2025
- Type: Announcement

MongoDB announced several product releases and platform updates aimed at supporting artificial intelligence and agentic workflows at MongoDB.local NYC. The release of MongoDB 8.2 arrives alongside integrations with Voyage AI embedding and reranker models designed to enhance data retrieval precision. In addition, MongoDB launched Search and Vector Search in public preview for both Community Edition and Enterprise Server deployments, bringing vector capabilities to self-managed environments. To assist organizations transitioning away from rigid legacy database systems, MongoDB also introduced the Application Modernization Platform, which combines AI-driven tooling and specialized migration expertise. Early benchmarks from the modernization platform demonstrate legacy migrations running two to three times faster while accelerating code rewriting tasks by an order of magnitude.


### [eBay Honored at Fast Company's Innovation by Design Awards](https://yomu.fyi/post/ebay-honored-at-fast-company-s-innovation-by-design-awards.md)
- Company: [Ebay](https://yomu.fyi/company/ebay.md)
- Author: eBay News Team
- Published: Sep 18, 2025
- Type: Announcement

eBay received three honorable mentions at Fast Company’s 2025 Innovation by Design Awards in UX Design, Enduring Impact: 15+ Years in Business, and Large Business: 1,000+ Employees. The honors recognized eBay Evo, a unified brand and design system launched in 2024 after a multi-year, interdisciplinary effort by eBay’s Design team to improve consistency, usability, and visual appeal across the eBay experience. To support its evolution, the team created the eBay Playbook, a guide with more than 280 pages, over 2,700 images and videos, and interactive tools for color selection, type testing, iconography, and accessibility. A panel of designers, business executives, and Fast Company editors selected the honorees, while eBay describes Evo as an adaptable foundation for changing customer needs.


### [Celebrating Excellence: MongoDB Global Partner Awards 2025](https://yomu.fyi/post/celebrating-excellence-mongodb-global-partner-awards-2025.md)
- Company: [MongoDB](https://yomu.fyi/company/mongodb.md)
- Author: Olivier Zieleniecki
- Published: Sep 18, 2025
- Type: Announcement

MongoDB announced the recipients of its 2025 Global Partner Awards, recognizing cloud providers, systems integrators, and technology vendors for driving enterprise modernization and artificial intelligence adoption. Microsoft earned Global Cloud Partner of the Year for joint integrations linking MongoDB Atlas on Azure with native Microsoft services across healthcare, telecommunications, and financial services. Amazon Web Services received the Global AI Cloud Partner award, highlighted by a joint deployment with Novo Nordisk that reduced a key workflow from twelve weeks to ten minutes using Amazon Bedrock and Atlas. Confluent was named Global Tech Partner of the Year with over 550 joint customer deployments focused on event-driven streaming and multi-agent systems alongside LangChain. Additional honorees included Google Cloud, Accenture, BigID, Pureinsights, gravity9, IBM, and Alibaba Cloud for their contributions across public sector solutions, database-as-a-service offerings, and generative AI frameworks.


### [庆祝卓越：MongoDB 全球合作伙伴奖 2025](https://yomu.fyi/post/mongodb-2025.md)
- Company: [MongoDB](https://yomu.fyi/company/mongodb.md)
- Author: Olivier Zieleniecki
- Published: Sep 18, 2025
- Type: Announcement

MongoDB announced its 2025 Global Partner Award recipients to recognize organizations driving AI adoption, legacy system modernization, and collaborative market expansion. Microsoft earned Global Cloud Partner for Azure integrations, while Amazon Web Services took Global AI Cloud Partner after assisting Novo Nordisk in cutting a key workflow from twelve weeks to ten minutes with Amazon Bedrock. Google Cloud received the Global Cloud GTM Partner award, and Confluent was named Global Technology Partner with over 550 joint deployments. LangChain and Pureinsights received honors for their integrations supporting retrieval-augmented generation and search solutions. Additional awards celebrated Accenture, BigID, gravity9, IBM, and Alibaba Cloud for their enterprise and public-sector impact.


### [우수성을 기념하기: 2025년 MongoDB 글로벌 파트너 어워드](https://yomu.fyi/post/2025-mongodb.md)
- Company: [MongoDB](https://yomu.fyi/company/mongodb.md)
- Author: Olivier Zieleniecki
- Published: Sep 18, 2025
- Type: Announcement

MongoDB announced the recipients of its 2025 Global Partner Awards to recognize partner contributions across cloud modernization, artificial intelligence, and enterprise integration. Microsoft received the Global Cloud Partner award for Azure integrations, while Amazon Web Services secured the Global AI Cloud Partner award following joint generative AI implementations such as reducing workflow durations for Novo Nordisk. Google Cloud earned the Global Cloud GTM Partner distinction through shared sales development programs, and Accenture took Global SI Partner honors after establishing a dedicated engineering Center of Excellence. Confluent was named Global Tech Partner with more than 550 joint streaming deployments, and LangChain was recognized as Global AI Tech Partner for vector search and agentic frameworks. The awards demonstrate partner-led technical solutions spanning distributed databases, data streaming pipelines, and scalable enterprise cloud architectures.


### [Celebrando la Excelencia: Premios Globales de Emparejar de MongoDB 2025](https://yomu.fyi/post/celebrando-la-excelencia-premios-globales-de-emparejar-de-mongodb-2025.md)
- Company: [MongoDB](https://yomu.fyi/company/mongodb.md)
- Author: Olivier Zieleniecki
- Published: Sep 18, 2025
- Type: Announcement

MongoDB presented its 2025 Global Partner Awards to honor partner organizations across cloud infrastructure, systems integration, generative AI, and enterprise data management. Microsoft received the Global Cloud Partner award for joint go-to-market solutions integrating MongoDB Atlas with native Azure services across healthcare, telecommunications, and financial services. Amazon Web Services earned the Global AI Cloud Partner award after delivering an Amazon Bedrock and MongoDB Atlas workflow implementation for Novo Nordisk that reduced processing time from twelve weeks to ten minutes. Confluent was recognized as Global Technology Partner for exceeding 550 joint deployments leveraging Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and event-driven AI architectures. Other honored partners include Google Cloud for joint sales development programs, Accenture for software engineering centers of excellence, LangChain for retrieval-augmented generation tooling, and IBM for Watsonx.ai integrations.


### [Hommage à l’excellence : MongoDB Global Partner Awards 2025](https://yomu.fyi/post/hommage-a-l-excellence-mongodb-global-partner-awards-2025.md)
- Company: [MongoDB](https://yomu.fyi/company/mongodb.md)
- Author: Olivier Zieleniecki
- Published: Sep 18, 2025
- Type: Announcement

MongoDB announced the recipients of its 2025 Global Partner Awards, recognizing enterprise collaboration across cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence, and systems modernization. Microsoft received the Global Cloud Partner award for joint integrations with Azure, while Amazon Web Services earned the Global AI Cloud Partner award following deployments combining Amazon Bedrock and MongoDB Atlas. Google Cloud was recognized for joint go-to-market initiatives, and Accenture received honours for establishing a dedicated MongoDB Center of Excellence within its software engineering division. Additional recognitions included Confluent for event-driven streaming deployments exceeding 550 customer implementations, BigID for data governance, gravity9 for modernization services, and Alibaba Cloud for managed database services. IBM and Accenture Federal Services were also acknowledged for strategic enterprise impact across mainframe architectures and public sector programs.


### [Democratizing AI Safety with RiskRubric.ai](https://yomu.fyi/post/democratizing-ai-safety-with-riskrubric-ai.md)
- Company: [Hugging Face](https://yomu.fyi/company/hugging-face.md)
- Author: Gal Moyal
- Published: Sep 18, 2025
- Type: Announcement

Cloud Security Alliance and Noma Security introduced RiskRubric.ai to provide standardized, transparent risk assessments across the open AI model ecosystem. The framework evaluates AI models across six pillars—transparency, reliability, security, privacy, safety, and reputation—using over 1,000 reliability tests, 200 adversarial security probes, automated code scanning, and harmful content evaluations. Each model receives 0–100 scores and A–F letter grades, supplemented by specific vulnerability findings and recommended mitigation strategies to assist deployment filtering. Initial benchmark results across models showed composite scores ranging from 47 to 94 with a median of 81, revealing polarized safety distributions and indicating that security hardening directly correlates with reduced safety risks.


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