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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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Scaling with MongoDB

Eliot Horowitz, CTO and Co-Founder, 10gen

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Video

For applications that outgrow the resources of a single database server, MongoDB can convert to a sharded cluster, automatically managing failover and balancing of nodes, with few or no changes to the original application code. This talk starts by discussing when to shard and continues on to describe MongoDB's sharding architecture. We'll describe how to configure a shard cluster and provide several example topologies. We'll also give some advice on schema design for sharding and how to pick the best shard key.

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