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When you work with a cluster, you lose the ability to examine an entire collection as a single “snapshot in time.” Many people don’t realize the ramifications of this until it hits them in the n...
A database cluster needs to at times grow to meet the needs of its application. The excerpt below from the O'Reilly publication Scaling MongoDB explains what sharding is and how it will help with ...
The larger a web application is the more more planning it requires. The following chapter excerpt from Kyle Loudon's Developing Large Web Applications reviews what leads to complexity in a web app ...