Over the past year, mobile in-app feedback provider Apptentive has scaled MongoDB on AWS from a single machine to a sharded, thousands-of-operations-per-second, several hundred gigabyte cluster. This session – packed with demos, code, and actual performance numbers – shares the lessons learned along the way.
Topics include picking the right tools for the job (instance sizing and selection, I/O choices, and topological choices); using chef/AWS OpsWorks and AWS CloudFormation to deploy and scale; monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch and MMS; managing backups with Amazon EBS snapshots; and using Amazon Elastic MapReduce alongside MongoDB instances.
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