Arlemi welcomes Joel Lord, Developer Advocate at MongoDB, to explore the new Data API from MongoDB and see how it can be used to query data from MongoDB Atlas using a REST-like interface then visualize it directly in Postman.
MongoDB workspace
0:00 Start
1:20 Intros
3:30 ICYMI new releases in Postman
6:38 What are we doing today – accessing MongoDB data via API
9:49 Create a MongoDB account and provision Atlas cluster
14:25 Create a database user to grant access
18:18 Load sample data to cluster
19:50 Invite user to a different project for collaboration
25:15 Explore data in MongoDB console
30:00 Connect to MongoDB cluster
34:20 Fork the MongoDB Data API collection in Postman
36:50 Enter authorization credentials
40:44 Review MongoDB terminology for database, collection, and document
43:13 Insert record in new database collection
51:30 What is the benefit of using the Data API instead of simple queries?
58:00 Visualize data coming back from the database in Postman
1:15:05 Style the data visualization
1:17:50 Use JavaScript in the data visualization
1:22:10 Final questions, recap, and community shoutouts
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