MongoDB Inc. prides itself on being a developer-friendly platform. At its annual conference in New York this week, the company announced further capabilities designed to appeal to its core constituency.

MongoDB unveiled a series of updates for its database, which included key tools for application development and synching data from the edge.

“Our whole business was founded on the ethos of making developers incredibly productive,” said Dev Ittycheria (pictured), chief executive officer of MongoDB. “They spend most of their time working with data. It’s just getting the infrastructure out of the way so developers could focus on what’s important, and that’s building great applications that transform the business.”

Ittycheria spoke with theCUBE industry analyst Dave Vellante at MongoDB World, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed MongoDB’s latest announcements and the company’s approach to meeting customer needs at the edge. (* Disclosure below.)

Application explosion

Developers may be working with data, but their efforts are in service of the application. MongoDB’s latest announcements featured a unified set of capabilities, including time-series collection and data synching for users, to further support developers in building modern applications using Atlas, its multicloud developer data platform.

“IDC says that 715 million applications will be built over the next two to three years,” Ittycheria noted. “To put that number in perspective, that’s more apps that will be built in the next three to four years than were built in the last 40. People need platforms like MongoDB to build the next generation of applications.”

The next generation of apps is expected to be heavily focused on enabling edge technology deployment. MongoDB announced a set of synching tools to connect a fully managed backend database in Atlas to Realm, an open-source mobile database used for the edge.

“We believe the applications of the future will be mobile first or purely mobile,” Ittycheria said. “We’ve introduced a bunch of sophisticated capabilities to synchronize data from the edge to the backend and vice versa with things like Flexible Sync. People want more insight in terms of what’s happening, and the source of that insight is your operational database.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of MongoDB World.

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the MongoDB World NYC event. Neither MongoDB Inc., the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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