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MongoDB (NASDAQ:MDB) has outperformed the market over the past 5 years by 24.4% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 37.12%. Currently, MongoDB has a market capitalization of $27.43 billion.

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MongoDB’s Performance Over Last 5 Years

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In the ever-evolving digital landscape, having a robust and efficient web development tech stack is paramount for success. A well-structured tech stack can significantly impact your website’s performance, user experience, and, ultimately, its search engine rankings. In this article, we’ll delve into the essential components of an effective web development tech stack that can help you achieve online excellence.

The Foundation: Choosing the Right Programming Language

Selecting the appropriate programming language is the cornerstone of your web development journey. It’s vital to opt for a language that aligns with your project’s requirements and objectives. Commonly used languages include:

1. JavaScript

JavaScript is a versatile and widely used language for front-end development. Its compatibility with various browsers and extensive libraries makes it a popular choice.

2. Python

Python excels in back-end development due to its simplicity and readability. It’s a great choice for web applications, data analysis, and automation.

3. Ruby

Ruby, known for its elegant syntax and robust framework, is an excellent choice for web development, particularly with the Ruby on Rails framework.

Crafting a User-Friendly Experience

1. Responsive Design

In the era of mobile-first indexing by search engines, having a responsive design is non-negotiable. Ensure that your website is optimized for various devices to enhance user experience and SEO rankings.

2. Fast Loading Speed

Page speed matters. Slow-loading websites not only frustrate users but also receive lower search engine rankings. Invest in optimizing your website’s performance to keep visitors engaged.

Database Management: Storing and Retrieving Data Efficiently

1. MySQL

MySQL is a reliable and popular open-source relational database management system. It’s a great choice for handling structured data efficiently.

2. MongoDB

If your project involves handling large volumes of unstructured data, MongoDB, a NoSQL database, is a flexible and scalable option.

SEO-Friendly Content Management System (CMS)

WordPress

WordPress is a go-to CMS for many websites, known for its user-friendly interface and a plethora of SEO plugins. It simplifies content management and optimization.

Embracing SEO Best Practices

1. On-Page SEO

Ensure that every page on your website is optimized for search engines. This includes using relevant keywords in meta tags, headings, and content.

2. High-Quality Content

Content is king in the digital realm. Create informative, engaging, and shareable content that resonates with your target audience and keeps them coming back.

Monitoring and Analytics

1. Google Analytics

Implementing Google Analytics provides valuable insights into your website’s performance, user behavior, and areas for improvement. It’s an indispensable tool for SEO.

2. SEO Audits

Regularly conduct SEO audits to identify and rectify issues that may hinder your website’s search engine rankings. Tools like SEMrush and Ahrefs can be immensely helpful.

The Power of Backlinks

1. Quality Link Building

Earning high-quality backlinks from reputable websites can significantly boost your SEO efforts. Focus on creating valuable content that naturally attracts backlinks.

Regular Updates and Maintenance

2. Security Updates

Keep your website secure by promptly installing security updates and patches. A secure website is not only essential for SEO but also for user trust.

3. Fresh Content

Search engines love fresh content. Regularly update your website with new articles, blog posts, or product listings to keep it relevant and engaging.

Conclusion

In the competitive online landscape, your web development tech stack plays a pivotal role in determining your website’s success. By carefully selecting the right components, optimizing for SEO, and staying up-to-date with best practices, you can maximize your website’s potential and reach new heights in the digital world. Remember, a well-optimized website not only attracts visitors but also ranks higher in search engine results, ultimately driving more organic traffic and achieving your online goals.

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Leandro: One thing I noticed when I reached a more senior developer role is that first I was expected to be more autonomous. I was expected to do work that was more impactful, whatever that means. I was working on a wider scope, and I noticed that there was never enough time to do what I knew was important. Now I was getting questions from my manager about what I should be doing. I was, shouldn’t you be telling me, what now?

I’m Sabrina. I’m a Principal Engineer at Intercom. We build a customer service platform for companies who care about delivering the best customer experiences. I want to talk to you about this transition to a more senior engineer role, and how you must be intentional about your time and the work that you do. I’ll talk about how to define your personal development journey as a senior staff-plus engineer, starting with how your role changes as you become a staff-plus engineer. Why it’s important to be intentional about your goals. The process that I use to set and keep track of goals. Finally, how that process can help you in more than one way, including how to set you up for your next promotion.

People Leader – Technical Leader

You don’t need manager in your title to be a leader in engineering teams. More companies are investing in senior individual contributor tracks to support engineers as they grow. Leaders need to set their own goals, balancing personal, team, and company’s priorities to define what to do and what not to do. This is important both for managers and individual contributors once they reach a more senior level. My current role is principal engineer, but I used to be a manager. I know I just said that you don’t need a manager in the title to have that experience. Being a past manager helped me so much in my principal engineer role today. I’ve learned a lot as part of my role as a manager, from my peers, from my own manager, and from formal training as well. Unfortunately, it’s still more common for companies to provide support for new managers, but not so much for more senior individual contributors when they get promoted into this role. I think mostly it’s because it’s more common to transition from an individual contributor to a manager. There are more resources and there are more similarities on how managers work across departments. It’s more likely your company will have a standard training for all managers.

I used a lot of my skills as a manager when I moved to a principal role. However, not everyone will switch tracks like that. It’s important for staff engineers to be given support in areas such as communications, leadership, mentorship, and many others. I’m so happy to see more books, more blogs, and conferences like this one happening to support staff-plus engineers. Companies should be proactive about providing the support, and not expect engineers to just learn on the job. If you are or were or you’re thinking about becoming a manager, that’s ok too. Charity Majors wrote an article on the engineer/manager pendulum. That makes a great case for changing tracks every few years. This flexibility can make you both a better manager and individual contributor as you change roles. There’s a lot of transferable knowledge between tracks. It makes you an individual contributor with stronger leadership skills, and a manager that’s still up to date with tech and maybe have more empathy for engineers, day-to-day.

What The Staff-Plus Engineer Role Looks Like

You get promoted or you’re a staff-plus engineer, what does that role look like? It depends. It depends is really a phrase for all of us when we’re talking about technical tradeoffs and other decisions that we have to make day-to-day. Your role and your personal development depends too. It depends on the company size and how teams are organized where you work, what level your manager is at, your role expectations. Maybe you have a career level definition in your company, how it’s defined in that level. How autonomous you’re expected to be. It also depends on your own personal experience and your preferences, and what kind of engineer you are. This role goes also by many names. After the more traditional senior level, the next level can be called staff, or principal, and after that distinguished. Again, it depends on where you work. They usually have one thing in common.

One of the main changes that happens when you are promoted into this type of leadership role is that you’re expected to be more autonomous. This might mean that you’re expected to be closer to the edge of the team that you work with, so being a bridge between your team and the rest of the organization. Or it might even mean that you’re no longer part of one team. You might be working with groups of teams regularly, or changing teams depending on your goals. You usually don’t belong to one specific team for a long time anymore. How does that change impact you? Before, when you were in a team, your goals were your team’s goals. You could also have your own personal goals, but your main focus was to deliver on your team’s goals. Now that you’re not part of the team anymore, how do you know where you should be focused on? Before, you joined all your teams’ meetings and communications, now that you’re not part of the team’s rituals anymore, how do you know what’s going on? How do you keep context of what’s happening? Before, you were evaluated mostly on execution and delivery of projects, you’re now evaluated on your leadership skills, strategic thinking, communication, coordination. Coding is just one of the many things that you do, so what else should you be doing?

Work Scope of the Staff-Plus Role

This role change not only expands your scope, and your impact, but it also changes the kind of work that you do. Let’s talk about how you can find this new kind of work. If you don’t actively think about your goals, it’s easy to be busy and not be impactful. This busy work can be urgent work fires, or even work that you’re not the most suited person to do anymore. For example, if you’re continuing mostly coding when there are better ways for you to be effective. There’s plenty of busy work to be done, but you know that that’s not what you’re supposed to be doing. That’s not the highest leverage work that you can do. You know you should be doing high-impact work, so where do you find this magic backlog of high-impact work? You create it yourself. As a staff-plus engineer, it’s up to you to identify and define what you should be working on. Your role now is to gather context and evaluate opportunities to help shape what you and even other teams should be focusing on.

Creating and Prioritizing Backlog of High-Impact work

I’ll talk through the process that I use to help me create and prioritize this backlog of high-impact work. What I do is I create a personal backlog of ideas, problems, areas to investigate, similarly to how a team would prioritize their work. A little caveat here, what I’m describing was not defined in one day. It was an iterative, and it is an iterative process that I use, and improve and change gradually as I use it, and I learn more. I hope this talk will give you a kickstart with the process if you want to take it on, but it’s really up to you to take it on and shape it to your needs and your preferences. Let’s go through the process.

1. List All Inputs

A backlog needs a list of inputs first. These are all the possible things that you could be doing. Some of the inputs you should look into, so first, business and product strategies. These are your main drivers. Do you understand your current business and product strategies? Do you know how your product or your team’s areas fits with the wider company’s strategy? At this level, you should be learning more about how the business works and how other departments work, and working very closely with product leaders. Think about expanding your network beyond just engineering. Think about what’s coming up next quarter or next year. Are there any risks and opportunities? What can you do to help prepare, disambiguate, and evaluate ideas? Secondly, you think about the team’s needs. If you’re working closely with a team or a group of teams, think about what they might need. Are there executional challenges ahead? Are there riskier, more ambiguous projects that you can support? At this point, what I do is review the team’s plans and roadmaps for the next quarter to spot anything that might need more support. I also talk to their managers and ask what support they think they might need or their team might need in the coming quarter. This is where you can think about the future as well. Is there any work that you can help prepare or disambiguate ahead of a team, so it’s more concrete and validated by the time the team takes it on? Another area for input is your department, in the engineering organization you work for. Are there cross-team initiatives that can elevate all of engineering that you want to propose or join? For example, there could be technical strategies across engineering, what kind of technologies you’re using, automated testing, and so on. Also, it could be about recruiting, broken processes, operational issues. They’re not just for managers, having input from engineers is really important too. I also added here some tips for managers. Sometimes it’s hard to know what we can expect from your manager now that you’re in a more senior role. Here’s something that you can expect from them. Your manager can help you to make sure that you have access to the context that you need. They’re probably in leadership and across meetings that you aren’t. They can support you by sharing context and creating connections to leadership and other teams.

2. Prioritize Inputs

Once you have a list of inputs, prioritize them by company needs first. Your main goal should be the most important thing that you’re doing to help with the company goals based on their strategy. Sometimes that might not be the thing that you’re spending most of your time on. By calling it out as your top goal, this means that you drop all other goals to get this going if needed. Next, think about riskier areas. Maybe there are product or technical risks. Maybe it’s a complex project, or there’s a new problem space that you haven’t dealt with before. There could be operational risks, or some performance risks, or scalability risks, or even organizational risks. If there’s a new team forming, or there are teams that are lacking senior engineers’ support. Finally, match your personal growth areas with these initiatives you identified and prioritized. Think about what feedback you got in your last performance review. Review the level description for the areas that you need to develop. For the areas that you’re strong at, what does the next level look like? Can you stretch yourself? You should identify any initiatives that you want to drive or make the case for that will help you with your personal growth goals. You frame the goals that you prioritize based on company priorities and risk by also explaining how they’ll help you grow as well. Here managers can help you by giving good performance review feedback and identifying opportunities. Also, don’t forget to ask your manager what’s going well, and ask them to explain why. It’s really helpful to hear back from managers what we’re doing well. Your manager can also help by putting their weight behind an initiative and formally sponsoring a project that you’re proposing.

3. Trim It Down

Finally, this list that you created is gold. You have a prioritized list of impactful work, and you won’t have time to tackle it all. How do you trim it down? With delegation. Are there opportunities for delegation? Mentoring and growing engineers is part of your role as a staff-plus engineer. You need to be a multiplier and share what you’ve uncovered. Your manager can help find opportunities for delegation. What I do is I chat to managers, my manager and the teams’ managers that I work with, I share this backlog that I identified and see if I can help others grow by delegation. If I spot anything that would be beneficial for someone else to take on, then I’ll talk to that person and see how I can support them.

Write It Down

Now, you have an achievable list of prioritized inputs aligned with your personal growth goals, and prioritized by company needs and risks, it’s time to write it down. Write it down in the tool of your choice, something that you feel comfortable with, that’s easy to refer to and update. I use a spreadsheet, but that might not work for you. Pick the tool that you’re most comfortable with. Here’s the format that I use. Each row is a goal. I’ll go through the columns now. The first column is a copy of the principal engineer level area, and I use this as a reference. This makes it clear how this goal aligns with my personal growth goals. This is how my managers measure my impact. It’s good to have that as a reference. Align the scope and impact expected with the area that’s the focus of that goal that I set up. The next two columns are the most important ones: commitment and impact. Commitment is what I’ll do. I’ll deliver on a technical strategy for an area. I’ll write a new version of an interview rubric, or I’ll support an engineer as they drive a risky project. Impact is, if I do this right, what benefits would we see? How will the world be a better place if I achieve my commitments? This part is quite hard to articulate. If there are any ways at all that you can measure this with metrics, definitely do that. Anything that you can track is definitely easier to understand the impact. That’s amazing. If you can have it, use it. That’s not always possible for every type of goal. Another thing that I’ve found super helpful is feedback from the people who you’re working with, and hopefully have benefit from the work that you do. This can be very helpful too. The final two columns are about setting expectations of my involvement. The role is, am I the one driving it? Am I part of a working group? Am I on the hook for it, or am I supporting someone else? The last one is just defining which one is the main goal. For the main goal, it means I will drop something else to finish this if needed.

Here’s an example, I’ll talk through it. The level of description for a principal engineer at Intercom says that we need to monitor and raise the bar for a good technical design. This is the area that’s related to this goal. The definition of the commitment is to define and implement an engineering-wide metric for code quality. The impact that we want to get with this is that teams can monitor their code quality and invest in improvements when needed. I think if I would rewrite this one, I actually try to find a metric or something that we can track. For example, if the quality was around testing, maybe testing coverage, or if it was around updating or upgrading some technology, it will be how many teams have done that already, something like that. The role for this one, I’m a driver, so I’m the one doing the pushing for this project. It’s my main goal. The second goal, another level expectation for principals at Intercom is that we grow capacity at staff and personal level. We’re helping other engineers be promoted and get into that track. The commitment here as an example is that I’ll coach Anna on a project she’s driving. I’ll have one-on-ones with her, and I’ll join early project scoping sessions. The impact is that Anna has support needed to work on her growth areas and submit a promotion proposal for next cycle. The role for me is I’m a supporter and it’s a secondary role. I hope that gives some shape and idea of what that document looks like and what goals I’m talking about.

Share It

You have a first draft, but you might still be missing some context. Now it’s a good time to share it with others. First, ask for feedback and any expectations from your manager. Hopefully, this is a continuous process, and you’ve been getting regular feedbacks in your one-on-ones. This is more about confirming you think you’re done, and asking them, is there anything missing, or do I need to change anything before you can share more broadly. You can share with your peers, other staff-plus principal engineers. That’s also a good time to check that the riskiest areas that you all know about have the right coverage from staff-plus engineers. Also, share it with cross-discipline peers. If you work closely with designers and product managers or others with context in the area that you’re working on, share it with them. This is a great way to answer that question of, how do I know what’s going on? How do I keep context? It helps both by forming relationships with teams and other disciplines. Also, for you to get a context on what you might be missing by not working with teams as closely anymore. Those conversations can also help you manage upwards, be the voice of tech and help your manager and other leaders understand what’s important. Your conversations about your goals can become pollinators of context, sharing it with folks as you explain your goals and why they are important.

Once it’s done, and you and your manager are happy and you have your goals, you can share it with everyone that works with you. Once my manager and I are happy, I write a publicly available version of that spreadsheet, that’s a written document that’s easier to digest, really short. That has my goals, my commitments, and the context on why I prioritize those areas. Sometimes, if you’re expected to be working on something that you’re not, it’s also useful to add that and explain why you didn’t prioritize it. I use this document as a chance to reiterate how principal engineers work and what to expect from me. Sometimes I might be working more closely with a team and sometimes I might be more hands-off. It’s a good place to clarify how teams can work with me and what they can expect. This is not a one-off process. You should find the right cadence for you to review and iterate on your goals.

Track Progress

This is my timeline. I’ll talk you through it. At my company, we plan quarterly roadmaps for teams. It’s a good cadence for me to set my own goals per quarter, as teams are prioritizing their goals. I define my goals quarterly, and then we break each quarter into two cycles, so it’s two, six-week periods. I break down each goal into milestones that I want to achieve within that six-week period. Breaking it down helps estimate and it’s really much easier to think about what you can achieve within six weeks rather than the whole quarter. Then, yes, we have weeks. I also use this cadence to track my progress. On a weekly basis, I review each milestone and quarterly goal that I have, and then plan my next week based on the progress that I want to make. I also use the weekly reviews to keep track of what I’ve done, of my actual progress. I write down what I achieved in the previous week, including links to artifacts and any outcome or impact that I had. I also write down any positive feedback or things that I’m proud of. It’d be really nice to keep track of that as well. I use the second six-week period when it starts, to review my progress overall and reprioritize, or rescope the goal if needed. It’s a really good checking point to look at the full picture and see, will I achieve my goal in the next six weeks or not? When the quarter comes to an end, I review the previous quarter’s progress and decide what if anything to carry over. Most goals are either done, or they can be dropped, or they change into something else as I learn more.

Over a quarter, it’s great to look back and see the week updates and see each step I took to achieve a goal, what went well, and where things got derailed. Because it’s really important to adapt and change if needed, because change is going to come definitely, we can be sure of that. You have your goals. You’re happily working towards your prioritized goals, when someone asks you to do something else that’s also mega urgent, important that needs to be done right now, what do you do? First ask yourself, am I missing context? Have things changed since I set my goals? That’s possible. Things change, as I said. Goals are not set in stone. This is not something to constrain you, it’s something to help you. If things did change, reprioritize. Talk to your manager and reset your goals. Another thing to think about is, can it be delegated? Is there anyone else that can take this over? Again, talk to your manager, talk to other managers, they can help you find a home for this problem. If not, say not now. They’ll say no, just say not now, and explain what your other priorities are, and why you can’t tackle this request right now. I usually find that when I explain the reason behind my no, or my not now, people are very understanding. You can take note of that request too, and this can be a good input for your next goal setting period.

What About Coding?

Sabrina, what about coding? This is an individual contributor role after all. How do you find impactful coding work? I believe as staff-plus engineers, we should still be shipping production code and delivering customer value. It might not happen every day, but it needs to happen enough that we understand the shape of the code base and the problems engineers and our customers have. How do you find the time? The same way that you define any other of your goals: setting your priorities with your manager and carving out the time for that. Think about why you want to spend some of your time coding. What are you trying to achieve? What’s the impact? As an example, when I joined Intercom, I joined as a principal engineer, which is another interesting way of being onboarded as a principal engineer in a company. When I joined Intercom, I needed to get an understanding of the code base. It’s quite a long-lived code base, a long-lived product, there’s a lot to learn. What I did was I joined the on-call rota for a couple of teams for a few weeks. The goal was for me to get a broad experience in our code base and get deep dives into the code base, guided by real customer problems. On-call provides a great learning opportunity. If there is an incident, an issue, or a bug reported, that’s showing me two things, there’s a valuable area that someone cares about because they reported an issue. There’s something that could be made better there, whatever that is. It’s a great signal that this could be an impactful area to work on. When you’re coding, go beyond just fixing the issue at hand. When you’re taking on coding tasks, you can use your skills to think beyond the task at hand and spot patterns, opportunities, and problems that you can address in a more holistic way. This can be input for your next goal setting period, for example, and proposing a project in that area. You have the scope and the experience to identify and then advocate and gather resources to help solve some of these wider problems you spotted while coding.

Beyond Goal Setting

I found that setting my goals intentionally thinking about my time, and what I’m doing intentionally, helped me beyond my personal development. One of the ways that it helps me is onboarding. It helps me actually set expectations and introduce my role to new teams and new teammates. Given how much the role can change, depending on the company and even the person or the time of the year, it’s useful to have a reference of what you’re doing and why. For example, when someone new joins a team that I’m working with, I can point them to that public document that I mentioned, and say, “This is what I’m doing. This is why. This is how you can work with me.” It helps me focus. As I just said, say no. It’s a lot easier when you can say why than you say no. Say no if more comes up, or intentionally reprioritizing if needed, instead of just jumping from one fire to the next. It also helps me not getting distracted by those fires, or by the urgent non-important tasks, that busy work that I talked about. One of the things that I really like about this process is that it helps me keep motivated. I find that as leaders, our feedback cycle is less immediate. Changes take longer. Or you might get caught up in fighting fires every day that you forget the big picture. I need to find ways to keep energized. These quarterly goals and their weekly reviews are a way for me to keep myself motivated and energized and understanding and seeing the big picture of why I’m doing the work that I’m doing day-to-day. Finally, because I tie my goals to my level, it makes my self-assessment for my performance review a lot easier. For me and my manager, I have a story to tell of what I’ve done and the impact that I’ve had.

What’s Next for You?

That helps showing when I’m ready for the next level. This intentionality in setting goals and defining how you spend your time can also help you reach your next career level. Each time that you set your goals and you review your progress, you’re creating a track record of what you’ve achieved, and the impact that that had. When you pick your goals that are aligned with your personal growth goals, you’ll be exercising those growth areas and showing how you have progressed. You can point to it and say, this is what I’ve done, and this is how I progressed. Where do you go as a staff-plus engineer? I’ll say it again, it depends. What this means to you depends on your company, the trajectory that you have there, the career levels that they have at your company. It really depends. Extending your role as a staff-plus engineer usually means increasing your level of impact and scope. Maybe you’re working with a team, and then you’re working with a group of teams, then you’re working with groups of teams or the whole organization. Sometimes you might be at the top of the career ladder for your individual contributor track. At that point, don’t be surprised if you’ll be asked to help define what the next level looks like. You might be defining the role yourself by the work that you do. It’s part of the autonomy and the seniority of that role, and it’s a quite exciting thing to do. You could also think about going to management. At Intercom, we’ve had many examples of engineers becoming managers, and then coming back to engineering and some even going back into manager again. My colleague Dave Lynch wrote a great blog post about it.

Summary

As a staff-plus engineer, your role now is together complex, and evaluate opportunities to help shape what you and even other teams should be focusing on. It’s important to really think about what you want to achieve and why. You can do this by creating your backlog of high-impact work. Prioritizing that backlog and trimming it down by using delegation. Getting feedback, and sharing your goals. Breaking it down into milestones and tracking your progress, and repeating it. It’s not a one-off process. Exactly how you do this, it’s up to you. As a senior technical leadership level, you must be intentional about your time and the work that you do. It’s part of your job now.

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Back in November, during the .NET Conf Microsoft released F# 8.0 as part of the .NET 8 release. The new version of F# brings in many features to make F# code simpler, more uniform, and apps more performant. The new features are related to language changes, improved diagnostics, quality-of-life improvements, and performance boosts for project compilation and upgrades.

In the latest F# release, several noteworthy features have been introduced to enhance the language’s expressiveness and efficiency. One significant addition is the shorthand for defining simple lambda functions, which proves particularly useful for situations where a lambda function is confined to an atomic expression on the lambda argument. This shorthand, expressed as (fun x -> x.Property), simplifies the code, making it more concise and readable.

A second key feature addresses the copy-and-update functionality for nested records. This enhancement simplifies the process of copying and updating nested record fields, providing developers with a more efficient and straightforward approach to field manipulation within records.

The while! (while bang) feature, initially announced in an earlier preview, has been officially integrated. This feature simplifies the use of computation expressions, especially when looping over a boolean condition that needs evaluation within the computation expression, such as within an async{} block.

let doStuffWithWhileBang =
    async {
        while! asyncCondition do
            count <- count + 2
        return count
    }

F# 8 also introduces an extended string interpolation syntax, drawing inspiration from C#. This improvement enhances the support for existing interpolated strings in F#. Literal text output can now seamlessly combine with values and expressions by enclosing them in braces {}. However, to use braces as literal parts of the output, they need to be escaped by doubling (via {{ and }}). As stated, this can be helpful when dealing with texts containing numerous braces, such as when embedding other languages in F# strings, like JSON, CSS, or HTML-based templating languages like mustache.

Furthermore, another significant update involves string literals used in built-in printing functions (printfn, sprintfn, etc.). In previous versions, the specified format had to be a string literal typed directly at the usage location. With F# 8, string literals defined elsewhere are now supported. Additionally, developers can define a string literal using a concatenation of existing string literals. This allows for the reuse of commonly repeated format specifiers as patterns, reducing redundancy in the codebase.

[] 
let formatBody = "(%f,%f)"
[] 
let formatPrefix = "Person at coordinates"
[] 
let fullFormat = formatPrefix + formatBody

let renderedCoordinates = sprintf formatBody 0.25 0.75
let renderedText = sprintf fullFormat 0.25 0.75

There are some other changes also, including arithmetic operators in literals, type constraint intersection syntax, extended fixed bindings, simplified [] method definitions and others. The release also includes the changes related to new and improved diagnostics.

With this release, F# is experiencing significant enhancements to improve uniformity and consistency. Static members can now be declared and implemented in interfaces, emphasizing concrete members in contrast to F#7’s static abstract members. Additionally, static bindings, including static let and static do, are extended to discriminated unions, records, structs, and types without primary constructors, promoting the encapsulation of data and logic within type definitions.

[]
type IDemoable =
    abstract member Show: string -> unit
    static member AutoFormat(a) = sprintf "%A" a

Also, the try-with code construct is now supported within collection builders, such as seq{} for IEnumerable definitions, [] for list builders, and [||] for array builders. This extension enables exception handling within these expressions, allowing for various combinations of ‘try’ and ‘with’ scenarios, enhancing the overall clarity and conciseness of F# code.

F# 8 introduces several quality-of-life improvements. One significant improvement is the introduction of trimmability for compiler-generated code, enhancing code clarity and reducing unnecessary elements.

Parser recovery has been refined, contributing to a more robust and resilient parsing process for improved code comprehension. Strict indentation rules have been implemented, promoting consistent code formatting and enhancing readability across F# projects.

Autocomplete functionality has been refined, providing an improved developer experience by offering more accurate and context-aware suggestions during coding. Additionally, [] unions now support over 49 cases, expanding the versatility of this construct within F#.

Compiler performance has been a focal point in this release, addressing crucial aspects related to the F# compiler and associated tooling. Special attention has been given to two key areas F# – incremental builds of large graphs of projects via the Reference assemblies feature, and CPU-parallelization of the compiler process.

Overall community feedback about this release, was positive and a couple of community members wrote that they already experienced the performance improvements. A user called David N wrote the following comment on the original blog post announcement:

Brilliant work. It’s taken me a while to get to read this and I see I have several things to go and try out now. Especially the new experimental compiler optimisations. I had already been trying the graph optimisations and they gave a 20% improvement to my project build times just with that one feature.

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WALTHAM, Mass., Jan. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Swirl, a leading search and AI company, announces that Chris Baio has joined as Head of Federal Sales. Bio will expand Swirl’s presence and impact in the federal market, where demand for AI is rapidly growing.

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Bio has over 20 years of experience serving government clients, enterprise search and unstructured data. He was Chief Revenue Officer at BasisTech, where he grew the Rosette text analytics business tenfold and merged it into Babel Street, backed by Veritas Capital. He also led programs at Federal CTO at MongoDB, Verity and MarkLogic.

“Chris is an experienced leader with a proven history of delivering value to government agencies and partners,” said Sid Probstein, President of Swirl. “His expertise in government use of unstructured data at various levels of sensitivity will fuel the growth of Swirl’s federal sales program. We are thrilled to welcome him to our team.”

Swirl is the leader in personalized real-time generative AI at enterprise scale. Swirl enables enterprises to build “intelligence systems” without transferring data or creating new repositories. Swirl supports multiple data sources and applications such as Elastic, OpenSearch, Snowflake, MongoDB, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Office 365, Slack, Teams, and more. This ensures quick, secure, cost-effective adoption by enterprises and government agencies.

The open-source version of Swirl is on GitHub under Apache 2.0, and has recently been made available on the Azure Marketplace, with Azure Government to follow. Swirl is easily deployed in private clouds using any AI or language model (LLM). The ability to run “roam inside the firewall”, especially in air gapped environments, has attracted the attention of federal agencies.

“I am excited to join Swirl and bring its discovery and AI technology to the federal market,” Baio said. “Swirl has a unique value proposition that addresses the challenges and opportunities of unstructured data in the government sector. I look forward to working with the Swirl team and our partners to deliver innovative solutions that meet the needs of our government customers.” “Curious.”

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Swirl is a leading search and AI company enabling personalized real-time generative AI at enterprise scale. Swirl helps enterprises build “intelligence systems” that leverage their existing data sources and repositories without compromising security or performance. Swirl’s technology is used by leading companies in finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and education. To learn more, visit Swirl or follow us on LinkedIn and X (Twitter).

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WALTHAM, Mass., Jan. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Swirl, a leading search and AI company, announced that Chris Biow joined as Head of Federal Sales. Biow will expand Swirl’s presence and impact in the federal market, where AI demand is growing rapidly.

Biow has over 20 years of experience in enterprise search and unstructured data, serving government customers. He was Chief Revenue Officer at BasisTech, where he grew the Rosette Text Analytics business tenfold and merged with Babel Street, supported by Veritas Capital. He also led programs at MongoDB, Verity, and Federal CTO at MarkLogic.

“Chris is a seasoned leader with a proven history of delivering value to government agencies and partners,” said Sid Probstein, President of Swirl. “His specialty in government use of unstructured data at varying levels of sensitivity will drive the growth of Swirl’s federal sales program. We are thrilled to welcome him to our team.”

Swirl is a pioneer in personalized real-time Generative AI at enterprise scale. Swirl enables enterprises to create “systems of intelligence” without moving data or creating new repositories. Swirl supports many data sources and applications like Elastic, OpenSearch, Snowflake, MongoDB, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Office 365, Slack, Teams and more. This ensures rapid, secure, cost-effective adoption by enterprises and government agencies.

Swirl’s open-source version is on GitHub under Apache 2.0, and recently made available on the Azure Marketplace, with Azure Government to follow. Swirl is easily deployed in private clouds using any AI or Language Model (LLM). The ability to run “Swirl inside the firewall,” especially air gapped environments, has attracted the attention of federal agencies.

“I’m excited to join Swirl and bring its search and AI technology to the federal market,” said Biow. “Swirl has a unique value proposition that addresses the challenges and opportunities of unstructured data in the government sector. I look forward to working with the Swirl team and our partners to deliver innovative solutions that meet our government customers’ needs.”

About Swirl 
Swirl is a leading search and AI company that enables personalized real-time Generative AI at enterprise scale. Swirl helps enterprises create “systems of intelligence” that leverage their existing data sources and repositories, without compromising security or performance. Swirl’s technology is used by leading companies, such as finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and education. To learn more, visit Swirl or follow us on LinkedIn and X (Twitter).

Media Contact: [email protected]

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NEW YORK, Jan. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDB) today announced that its Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, Michael Gordon, and Senior Vice President of Finance, Serge Tanjga, will present virtually at the Needham Growth Conference.

The MongoDB presentation is scheduled for Tuesday, January 16, 2024, at 10:15 a.m. Eastern Time. A live webcast of the presentation will be available on the Events page of the MongoDB investor relations website at https://investors.mongodb.com/news-events/events. A replay of the webcast will also be available for a limited time.

About MongoDB

Headquartered in New York, MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. Built by developers, for developers, MongoDB’s developer data platform is a database with an integrated set of related services that allow development teams to address the growing requirements for today’s wide variety of modern applications, all in a unified and consistent user experience. MongoDB has tens of thousands of customers in over 100 countries. The MongoDB database platform has been downloaded hundreds of millions of times since 2007, and there have been millions of builders trained through MongoDB University courses. To learn more, visit mongodb.com.

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NEW YORK, Jan. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDB) today announced that its Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, Michael Gordon, and Senior Vice President of Finance, Serge Tanjga, will present virtually at the Needham Growth Conference.

The MongoDB presentation is scheduled for Tuesday, January 16, 2024, at 10:15 a.m. Eastern Time. A live webcast of the presentation will be available on the Events page of the MongoDB investor relations website at https://investors.mongodb.com/news-events/events. A replay of the webcast will also be available for a limited time.

About MongoDB 
Headquartered in New York, MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. Built by developers, for developers, MongoDB’s developer data platform is a database with an integrated set of related services that allow development teams to address the growing requirements for today’s wide variety of modern applications, all in a unified and consistent user experience. MongoDB has tens of thousands of customers in over 100 countries. The MongoDB database platform has been downloaded hundreds of millions of times since 2007, and there have been millions of builders trained through MongoDB University courses. To learn more, visit mongodb.com.

Investor Relations
Brian Denyeau
ICR for MongoDB
646-277-1251
[email protected]

Media Relations
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NEW YORK, Jan. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDB) today announced that its Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, Michael Gordon, and Senior Vice President of Finance, Serge Tanjga, will present virtually at the Needham Growth Conference.

The MongoDB presentation is scheduled for Tuesday, January 16, 2024, at 10:15 a.m. Eastern Time. A live webcast of the presentation will be available on the Events page of the MongoDB investor relations website at https://investors.mongodb.com/news-events/events. A replay of the webcast will also be available for a limited time.

About MongoDB 
Headquartered in New York, MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. Built by developers, for developers, MongoDB’s developer data platform is a database with an integrated set of related services that allow development teams to address the growing requirements for today’s wide variety of modern applications, all in a unified and consistent user experience. MongoDB has tens of thousands of customers in over 100 countries. The MongoDB database platform has been downloaded hundreds of millions of times since 2007, and there have been millions of builders trained through MongoDB University courses. To learn more, visit mongodb.com.

Investor Relations
Brian Denyeau
ICR for MongoDB
646-277-1251
ir@mongodb.com

Media Relations
press@mongodb.com

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NEW YORK, Jan. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDB) today announced that its Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, Michael Gordon, and Senior Vice President of Finance, Serge Tanjga, will present virtually at the Needham Growth Conference.

The MongoDB presentation is scheduled for Tuesday, January 16, 2024, at 10:15 a.m. Eastern Time. A live webcast of the presentation will be available on the Events page of the MongoDB investor relations website at https://investors.mongodb.com/news-events/events. A replay of the webcast will also be available for a limited time.

About MongoDB 
Headquartered in New York, MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. Built by developers, for developers, MongoDB’s developer data platform is a database with an integrated set of related services that allow development teams to address the growing requirements for today’s wide variety of modern applications, all in a unified and consistent user experience. MongoDB has tens of thousands of customers in over 100 countries. The MongoDB database platform has been downloaded hundreds of millions of times since 2007, and there have been millions of builders trained through MongoDB University courses. To learn more, visit mongodb.com.

Investor Relations
Brian Denyeau
ICR for MongoDB
646-277-1251
ir@mongodb.com

Media Relations
press@mongodb.com

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