The document discusses change streams in MongoDB, which allow applications to watch for changes to a given collection. It covers the characteristics of change streams, including the five operation types detected (insert, update, replace, delete, invalidate). It provides examples of different use cases and discusses development tips for change streams like matching on unchanging fields. The underlying technology section notes that change streams are built on top of MongoDB's replication functionality and oplog, allowing changes to be applied across secondaries and changes to be resumed from a token.