From our Customers
With foursquare's growing popularity, we were fast approaching the point where it would no longer be feasible to store user checkins on a single physical machine. MongoDB's auto-sharding capabilities enabled us to easily transition to a multi-node cluster that will enable us to continue to grow for the foreseeable future.
Harry Heymann Engineering Lead, foursquare
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MongoDB on Amazon Web Services
Nosh Petigara, 10gen
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@noshinosh
Posted on 2011-12-01
Slides
In this session we'll explore scaling and performance characteristics of running MongoDB in the cloud as well as best practices for running on platforms like Amazon EC2.