Advanced Schema Design Patterns and Anti-patterns

Power up your MongoDB skills by learning advanced schema design patterns like approximation and schema versioning. Learn to manage schema lifecycle changes without downtime and identify performance-impacting anti-patterns, ensuring efficient and scalable database solutions.

Upon completion of the Advanced Schema Design Patterns and Anti-patterns skill check, you will earn a Credly Badge that you are able to share with your network.



Learning Objectives

Apply Advanced Schema Design Patterns

Implement advanced schema design patterns, such as the approximation pattern and schema versioning pattern.


Manage Database Schema Lifecycle

Update your schema and migrate your application to the new schema without any downtime.



Identify Advanced Anti-patterns

Identify and avoid anti-patterns that impact performance such as a massive number of collections, unnecessary indexes, data normalization, and case sensitivity.





Emily Pope | Senior Curriculum Designer

Emily Pope | Senior Curriculum Designer

Emily Pope is a Senior Curriculum Designer at MongoDB. She loves learning and loves making it easy for others to learn how and when to use deeply technical products. Recently, she's been creating AI and vector search content for MongoDB University. Before that, she's created learning experiences on databases, computer science, full stack development, and even clinical trial design and analysis. Emily holds an Ed.M. in International Education Policy from Harvard Graduate School of Education and began her career as an English teacher in Turkiye with the Fulbright program.

Joel Lord | Lead, Curriculum Eng/Technologist

Joel Lord | Lead, Curriculum Eng/Technologist

Joel Lord is a curriculum engineer at MongoDB who is committed to empowering developers through education and active community involvement. With more than twenty years of experience in software development, developer advocacy, and technical education, he combines extensive expertise with a dedication to making complex topics more understandable.

Holding a Bachelor of Science in computational astrophysics from Université Laval, Joel started his career in web development before he focused on assisting others in their learning journeys. At MongoDB, he develops educational materials designed to equip developers with the skills to build improved applications, drawing on his wide-ranging experience as a speaker at global conferences.

When he is not working, Joel enjoys stargazing in remote camping areas, experimenting with inventive brewing methods in his garage, and offering emotional support to his two cats, who often appear as guests during his Zoom meetings.

Sarah Evans | Senior Curriculum Engineer

Sarah Evans | Senior Curriculum Engineer

Sarah is a Senior Curriculum Engineer on the Curriculum team at MongoDB. Prior to MongoDB, she taught and developed curricula for developer bootcamps. Sarah has a MAT degree from Columbia University Teachers College and studied Software Engineering at Flatiron School in Chicago, IL.

Manuel Fontan Garcia | Senior Technologist, Education

Manuel Fontan Garcia | Senior Technologist, Education

Manuel is a Senior Technologist on the Curriculum team at MongoDB. Previously he was a Senior Technical Services Engineer in the Core team at MongoDB. In between Manuel worked as a database reliability engineer at Slack for a little over 2 years and then for Cognite until he re-joined MongoDB. With over 15 years experience in software development and distributed systems, he is naturally curious and holds a Telecommunications Engineering MSc from Vigo University (Spain) and a Free and Open Source Software MSc from Rey Juan Carlos University (Spain).

John McCambridge | Curriculum Engineer

John McCambridge | Curriculum Engineer

John is a Curriculum Engineer on the University team at MongoDB. Before his work as a Curriculum Engineer, he was an instructor and teaching assistant for coding boot camps at UT (Austin), and UCLA. Additionally, he worked as a QA engineer for a startup called Coder and spent five years at Apple Inc. John is a passionate software engineer and educator who enjoys taking complex topics and making them digestible for the community.