Building Useful Community Software with MongoDB Using AI Agents

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0000

When activity spreads across GitHub, the forum, and content, real contribution is easy to lose in the noise. A community program only works when people trust the numbers behind the thank-you, so the leaderboard has to be accurate and explainable. For our Community Leaderboard we built scheduled indexers for those sources, Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) as a flexible store for messy multi-source data, private dashboards to verify staff vs community and identity maps, and a daily JSON feed that powers a static Hugo widget. AI agents took care of much of the boilerplate: API clients, first-pass field mappings, early widget prototypes. That let us spend the week on rules, trust, and the public experience. The same pattern should transfer if you run a community or like database-shaped side projects.

Introducing Mountaineers: A Way to Say Thank You

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0000

You filed a bug report at 11pm because you’d already done the work to isolate it. You answered a forum question that had been sitting unanswered for three days. You wrote a PR. You spent an hour on a call telling us what’s broken about a tool you use every day. None of that is small, and none of it should go unnoticed.

That’s what Mountaineers are. It’s how we recognize the time and energy you put into this community — and reward it.

Mountaineers on Percona Community

Building Useful Community Software with MongoDB Using AI Agents

Introducing Mountaineers: A Way to Say Thank You