In previous posts of our “Become a MongoDB DBA” series, we covered Deployment, Configuration, Monitoring (part 1), Monitoring (part 2), backup and restore. From this blog post onwards, we shift our focus to the scaling...

Replica Sets or Sharded Clusters? ** Diagrams updated on May 22nd. Thanks to Leif Walsh from Tokutek for his feedback. Replica Sets are a great way to replicate MongoDB data across multiple servers and have...