MUG Cape Town OCT 2026 - MongoDB 9.0 News & Cluster Reliability
MongoDB User Group Cape Town: MongoDB 9.0 News & Cluster Reliability 🍃🚀
Cape Town builders, data practitioners, and architects — we’re back!
Join us at The Athenaeum in Newlands for an evening focused on peak performance and resilience with MongoDB. We’ll be breaking down what’s new in the MongoDB 9.0 release, exploring how to keep mission-critical clusters highly reliable under demanding real-time workloads, and swapping notes with peers solving real data challenges across the Mother City.
Whether you’re running large-scale distributed databases, building modern analytical and AI-powered pipelines, or just curious about how 9.0 changes the game, grab some food, grab a drink, and connect with Cape Town's MongoDB community!
Agenda📆
18:00 – 18:15: Arrival, Welcome & Community Kickoff
18:15 – 18:40: MongoDB 9.0 Unpacked: Performance, Features & What’s Next — Gareth Furnell
18:40 – 19:00: Architecting for Resilience: Cluster Reliability & Production Best Practices — Uywen Africa
19:00 - 19:30: Possible Guest Speaker
19:30 – 20:00: Food, Drinks & Open Networking
Session Details📝
1. MongoDB 9.0 Unpacked: Performance, Features & What’s Next
Speaker: Gareth Furnell (Analytics Engineer & MongoDB User Group Leader)
MongoDB 9.0 is here with massive speedups and workload improvements. In this talk, we’ll dive into what’s new under the hood:
Key throughput and latency gains across core read/write operations
Practical architectural benefits of intelligent workload management
Cutting through the AI-era knowledge surplus to build pragmatic, performant modern pipelines
2. Architecting for Resilience: Cluster Reliability & Production Best Practices
Speaker: Uywen Africa (MongoDB Database Administrator & MongoDB User Group Leader)
High performance means nothing if your clusters can't take the heat when traffic surges. This session tackles day-to-day operations and production hardening:
Eliminating common operational bottlenecks and keeping failovers seamless
High-availability patterns, replica set health, and proactive monitoring
Practical DBA takeaways to keep your mission-critical databases resilient, reliable, and cost-effective
What you'll walk away with🍃
A chance to put what you've learnt to the test, by participating in a 10-question quiz on the topic of Cluster Reliability, shared to LinkedIn, which gains reach from MongoDB's 900k+ follower repost of your achievement.
A chance to win exclusive MongoDB swag based on your questions and participation, including books, stickers, MongoDB socks and more!