Kristina Chodorow eBooks

Getting started with MongoDB is easy, but once you begin building applications with it, you'll face some complex issues. What are the tradeoffs between normalized and denormalized data? How do you handle replica set failure and failover? This collection of MongoDB tips, tricks, and hacks helps you resolve issues with everything from application design and implementation to data safety and monitoring.You get specific guidance in five topic areas directly from engineers at 10gen, the company that develops and supports this open source database:Application Design Tips: What to keep in mind when designing your schemaImplementation Tips: Programming applications against MongoDBOptimization Tips: Speeding up your applicationsData Safety Tips: Using replica...

Create a MongoDb cluster that will grow to meet the needs of your application. With this short and concise book, you'll get guidelines for setting up and using clusters to store a large volume of data, and learn how to access the data efficiently. In the process, you'll understand how to make your application work with a distributed database system. Scaling MongoDb will help you: Set up a MongoDb cluster through sharding Work with a cluster to query and update data Operate, monitor, and backup your cluster Plan your application to deal with outages By following the advice in this book, you'll be well on your way to building and running an efficient, predictable distributed system using MongoDb....