One of the security aspects of managing a database is to understand who accessed the database, when, and what did they do. Although we have already secured the MongoDB service,  we still want to know...

The prevalence of data breaches is no longer surprising. Based on the just released FBI cybercrime report, victims of cybercrime have cumulatively lost a whopping $4.2 billion in 2020 which is $700 million more than...

Relying only on on-premises infrastructure may limit how quickly organizations can develop and launch applications. Extending the infrastructure to utilize public cloud in a hybrid setup is a great way to achieve infrastructure agility. It...

Open edX is a platform that provides the massively scalable learning software technology behind edX. The Open edX project is a web-based platform for creating, delivering, and analyzing online courses. It is the software that...

Open edX is an open source project for online learning developed by the MIT and Harvard team. It is a web based application with a lot of components such as student facing, course authoring, course...

Database backup is a crucial undertaking when ensuring data safety and availability in an event of database destruction at any time. In other words, backups may provide a better foundation for business continuity in any...

A MongoDB transaction is a group of throughput operations (reads and writes ) that require all these operations to succeed or fail together. For instance consider transferring money from account A to account B. If...

The latest versions of MongoDB are built to integrate new or improved features from the predecessor versions. For this reason, it is recommended to run the latest version for maximum performance and additional features. Besides,...

MongoDB just like any other database may fail when executing a write operation. In that case we need a strategy that will keep the operation somewhere so that the database can resume when it is...

If you aren’t familiar with MongoDB, it’s a document-oriented NoSQL data model, which uses documents rather than tables and rows like you would find with relational tables. As such, due to the unique way it’s...

Making proper backups of the database is a critical task. Besides setting the high availability architecture of your MongoDB for database services, you also need to have backups of your databases to ensure the availability...

When running critical database services in production, we need to know and monitor the database. You need to understand the key metrics in the database that you are using. For example, when you run MongoDB...