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title: "Atlas"
description: "2 posts about Atlas, summarised, each linking to the original."
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# Atlas
> 2 posts about Atlas, summarised, each linking to the original.

## Articles

### [Intelligent Workload Management: Keeping Your Clusters Available When It Matters](https://yomu.fyi/post/intelligent-workload-management-keeping-your-clusters-available-when-i.md)
- Company: [MongoDB](https://yomu.fyi/company/mongodb.md)
- Published: Oct 7, 2026
- Type: Announcement

MongoDB Atlas announced Intelligent Workload Management (IWM) as GA in MongoDB 9.0, a managed availability capability that keeps clusters responsive and predictable under overload. When demand exceeds safe processing, IWM limits incoming work and queues surplus requests by default, keeps short-running operations moving while managing long-running ones conservatively, and adjusts memory and cache management to preserve cluster health. It works with or without auto-scaling, helping clusters stay stable while additional capacity provisions, closing the gap between a traffic spike and new capacity coming online. Default protections are enabled at no extra cost on eligible dedicated clusters and require no application changes; optional Load Shedding can reject excess operations for sustained overload, and Coinbase’s VP of Engineering cited confidence during peak trading windows. Observability metrics in Atlas track IWM interventions, and a test validates driver compatibility and application handling before enabling Load Shedding in production.


### [AI Demand is Constant, Unpredictable, and Extreme. MongoDB is Built for It.](https://yomu.fyi/post/ai-demand-is-constant-unpredictable-and-extreme-mongodb-is-built-for-i.md)
- Company: [MongoDB](https://yomu.fyi/company/mongodb.md)
- Published: Sep 30, 2026
- Type: Announcement

AI-driven demand is constant, unpredictable, and extreme, unlike earlier internet and cloud eras where spikes were more predictable. Enterprises need a data layer that can absorb sudden bursts of traffic without re-architecture. MongoDB announced Atlas Infinite, a new deployment option within MongoDB Atlas that independently scales compute and storage within minutes. Atlas Infinite supports replica sets with 10x the data capacity of Atlas Core and delivers 189% more throughput per dollar in internal tests. MongoDB 9.0 was also released, offering up to 35% faster find-one queries and new security features like queryable encryption with prefix, suffix, and substring searches.