BSON stands for Binary JSON which is a serialization format for binary-encoding JSON-like documents. BSON was developed at MongoDB in the year 2009 and is primarily used internally for storing documents. BSON also supports data types that are not natively supported by JSON and this makes MongoDB query language rich in a large number of data types. BSON is similar to Google's Protocol Buffers which also serialize and deserialize the data. Unlike Protocol Buffers, BSON does not

The change streams by default emits only the delta fields for any update operation, ie. the event with operationType update does not...

Today we are going to explore a very powerful tool in the change streams called the resume token . For motivation purposes, consider,...

In Part 1 of the series, we saw how to keep a watch on a collection and receive events. This means, that the subscriber receives all...

MongoDB 3.6 introduced a new feature called change streams. The change streams is a very powerful feature which allows applications to...