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Ken W Alger

Ken has a long history around computers starting with early Commodore PETs and VIC-20s. He is a MongoDB Certified Developer and lives in Oregon with his wife and three children. You can find him most places online @kenwalger

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The Inference Renaissance

The Inference Renaissance

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The Local Eye (Sovereign Vision)

The Local Eye (Sovereign Vision)

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Why Your Tech Stack Doesn’t Matter
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Why Your Tech Stack Doesn’t Matter

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When Your AI Pipeline Grows Up: Infrastructure Thinking for Real-Time Inference at Scale
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When Your AI Pipeline Grows Up: Infrastructure Thinking for Real-Time Inference at Scale

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The Backyard Quarry, Part 8: From Rocks to Reality
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The Backyard Quarry, Part 8: From Rocks to Reality

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The Guardian: Human-in-the-Loop AI Governance
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The Guardian: Human-in-the-Loop AI Governance

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What I’ve Been Building: Systems, AI, and Real-World Data
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From backyard rocks to production pipelines

What I’ve Been Building: Systems, AI, and Real-World Data

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The Backyard Quarry, Part 7: Systems Beyond the Backyard
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The Backyard Quarry, Part 7: Systems Beyond the Backyard

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The Accountant: Optimizing AI Costs with Semantic Routing
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The Accountant: Optimizing AI Costs with Semantic Routing

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The Backyard Quarry, Part 6: Scaling the Quarry
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The Backyard Quarry, Part 6: Scaling the Quarry

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Who Audits the Auditors? Building an LLM-as-a-Judge for Agentic Reliability

Who Audits the Auditors? Building an LLM-as-a-Judge for Agentic Reliability

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5.4-Cyber and the Death of the Static CI/CD Pipeline
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5.4-Cyber and the Death of the Static CI/CD Pipeline

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The Backyard Quarry, Part 5: Digital Twins for Physical Objects
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The Backyard Quarry, Part 5: Digital Twins for Physical Objects

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The Backyard Quarry, Part 4: Searching a Pile of Rocks
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The Backyard Quarry, Part 4: Searching a Pile of Rocks

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Building Your First MCP Server: TypeScript vs. Python

Building Your First MCP Server: TypeScript vs. Python

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The Final Boss: Enterprise Governance & Scalability

The Final Boss: Enterprise Governance & Scalability

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The Backyard Quarry, Part 3: Capturing the Physical World
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The Backyard Quarry, Part 3: Capturing the Physical World

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The Ink, The Iron, and the Algorithm: Why I Build for Truth

WeCoded 2026: Echoes of Experience 💜

The Ink, The Iron, and the Algorithm: Why I Build for Truth

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From Cloud to Laptop: Running MCP Agents with Small Language Models

From Cloud to Laptop: Running MCP Agents with Small Language Models

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The Backyard Quarry, Part 2: Designing a Schema for Physical Objects
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The Backyard Quarry, Part 2: Designing a Schema for Physical Objects

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The Backyard Quarry: Turning Rocks Into Data
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The Backyard Quarry: Turning Rocks Into Data

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The Forensic Team: Architecting Multi-Agent Handoffs with MCP
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The Forensic Team: Architecting Multi-Agent Handoffs with MCP

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The End of Glue Code: Why MCP Is the USB-C Moment for AI Systems
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The End of Glue Code: Why MCP Is the USB-C Moment for AI Systems

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Archival Intelligence: A Forensic Rare Book Auditor

Notion MCP Challenge Submission 🧠

Archival Intelligence: A Forensic Rare Book Auditor

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BSON Data Types - ObjectId
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BSON Data Types - ObjectId

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Building with Patterns: A Summary

Building with Patterns: A Summary

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MongoDB Schema Design Patterns – Attribute

MongoDB Schema Design Patterns – Attribute

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MongoDB Schema Design Patterns – Polymorphic

MongoDB Schema Design Patterns – Polymorphic

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MongoDB’s BI Connector: The Smart Connector for Business Intelligence

MongoDB’s BI Connector: The Smart Connector for Business Intelligence

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MongoDB Atlas Data Explorer

MongoDB Atlas Data Explorer

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Reducing the Need for ETL with MongoDB Charts

Reducing the Need for ETL with MongoDB Charts

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Visualizing Your Data With MongoDB Charts

Visualizing Your Data With MongoDB Charts

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MongoDB World 2018 a Review and Retrospective
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MongoDB World 2018 a Review and Retrospective

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New R Driver Option in MongoDB 3.6
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New R Driver Option in MongoDB 3.6

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Book Review: The Little Mongo DB Schema Design Book
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Book Review: The Little Mongo DB Schema Design Book

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Schema Validation in MongoDB 3.6
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Schema Validation in MongoDB 3.6

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MongoDB Stitch Tutorial
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MongoDB Stitch Tutorial

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Retryable Writes in MongoDB
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Retryable Writes in MongoDB

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Change Streams, Coming Soon in MongoDB 3.6
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Change Streams, Coming Soon in MongoDB 3.6

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Using R with MongoDB

Using R with MongoDB

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Big Data and NoSQL: A Great Coupling
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Big Data and NoSQL: A Great Coupling

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MongoDB.local San Francisco Recap
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MongoDB.local San Francisco Recap

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Storing Documents in a MongoDB Database?
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Storing Documents in a MongoDB Database?

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Performing joins in MongoDB with $lookup
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Performing joins in MongoDB with $lookup

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Schema Design Considerations in MongoDB
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Schema Design Considerations in MongoDB

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Data Durability in MongoDB
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Data Durability in MongoDB

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MongoDB Plugin for PyCharm
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MongoDB Plugin for PyCharm

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MongoDB Performance Issues - Fact or Fiction
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MongoDB Performance Issues - Fact or Fiction

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Book Review: The Complete Software Developer’s Career Guide
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Book Review: The Complete Software Developer’s Career Guide

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MongoDB Storage Engine Journaling
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MongoDB Storage Engine Journaling

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Monetary Data Type Storage in MongoDB

Monetary Data Type Storage in MongoDB

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A review of the LoPy microcontroller
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A review of the LoPy microcontroller

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Overview of MongoDB's BaaS offering: MongoDB Stitch
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Overview of MongoDB's BaaS offering: MongoDB Stitch

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IoT Security with SSL/TLS in MicroPython

IoT Security with SSL/TLS in MicroPython

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Importing data with mongoimport

Importing data with mongoimport

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MicroPython Temperature Sensor
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MicroPython Temperature Sensor

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MongoDB Horizontal Scaling through Sharding

MongoDB Horizontal Scaling through Sharding

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Choosing a good Shard Key in MongoDB
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Choosing a good Shard Key in MongoDB

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Overview of the MQTT Protocol

Overview of the MQTT Protocol

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MongoDB explain() explained

MongoDB explain() explained

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