MongoDB’s Jonathan Janos on building interoperable architectures

Jonathan Janos, Principal Solutions Architect at MongoDB, discussed effective approaches to modernizing legacy systems without disruption, emphasizing the need to run old and new systems in parallel using an event-streaming architecture. He highlighted the importance of considering scalability, resilience and interoperability in government application and data architectures, noting that MongoDB’s JSON-based structure facilitates data transport and storage. Janos also advised evaluating trade-offs in technology choices, such as the cost and latency impacts of resilience, and stressed the necessity of horizontal scaling and interconnected systems in modern technology planning.