Part 3. MongoDB mastery
Having read the first two parts of the book, you should understand MongoDB quite well from a developer’s perspective. Now it’s time to switch roles. In this final part of the book, we’ll look at MongoDB from the database administrator’s perspective. This means we’ll cover all the things you need to know about performance, deployments, fault tolerance, and scalability.
To get the best performance from MongoDB, you have to design efficient queries and then ensure that they’re properly indexed. This is what you’ll learn in chapter 8. You’ll see why indexes are important, and you’ll learn how they’re chosen and then traversed by the query optimizer. You’ll also learn how to use helpful tools like the query explainer and ...
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