50 Tips and Tricks for MongoDB Developers: Get the Most Out of Your Database

by Kristina Chodorow

Overview

Getting started with MongoDB is easy, but once you begin building applications with it, you'll face some complex issues. What are the tradeoffs between normalized and denormalized data? How do you handle replica set failure and failover? This collection of MongoDB tips, tricks, and hacks helps you resolve issues with everything from application design and implementation to data safety and monitoring.

You get specific guidance in five topic areas directly from engineers at 10gen, the company that develops and supports this open source database:

• Application Design Tips: What to keep in mind when designing your schema
• Implementation Tips: Programming applications against MongoDB
• Optimization Tips: Speeding up your applications
• Data Safety Tips: Using replication and journaling to keep data safe—without sacrificing too much performance
• Administration Tips: How to configure MongoDB and keep it running smoothly

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781449308674
Publisher:	O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date:	04/19/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	68
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Kristina Chodorow, a software engineer at 10gen, is a core contributor to the MongoDB project and has worked on the database server, PHP driver, Perl driver, and many other areas. She’s given talks at conferences around the world, including OSCON, LinuxCon, FOSDEM, and Latinoware.

Table of Contents

Preface


Chapter 1: Application Design Tips


Chapter 2: Implementation Tips


Chapter 3: Optimization Tips


Chapter 4: Data Safety and Consistency


Chapter 5: Administration Tips

Kristina Chodorow, a software engineer at 10gen, is a core contributor to the MongoDB project and has worked on the database server, PHP driver, Perl driver, and many other areas. She’s given talks at conferences around the world, including OSCON, LinuxCon, FOSDEM, and Latinoware.