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A (MongoDB) New Year’s Resolution
Another New Year. Another reset. Another wave of optimism! Or, if you are a fan of Manchester United (like me), maybe not so optimistic. You’ve seen this pattern before. A bad run of form forces a big change: And yet … the same mistakes keep happening. Poor spacing. Slow transitions. Players doing too much because…
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Working with Geo Location Data in MongoDB
MongoDB makes it really easy to work with location data (sometimes called Geo Data) by simplifying how to store this type of data and streamlining how you query for it so you can easily create “find nearby” queries, or plot your location data with ease! Let’s start with the basics: modeling your data, indexing it…
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Full-Text Search in MongoDB with Relevance Scores
Do you know about MongoDB Text Search? Imagine we are building an app and want users to search by ingredients or dish names (like chocolate or zucchini bread) and get the most relevant results. But wait! We have that information in multiple places, like the recipe title or the ingredients, or tags (like “pasta” on…
