Chapter 6. Further Reading

If you follow the advice in the preceding chapters, you should be well on your way to an efficient and predictable distributed system that can grow as you need. If you have further questions or are confused about anything, feel free to email me at .

If you’re interested in learning more about sharding, there are quite a few resources available:

  • The MongoDB wiki has a large section on sharding, with everything from configuration examples to discussions of internals.

  • The MongoDB user list is a great place to ask questions.

  • There are lots of useful little pieces of code in the mongo-snippets repository.

  • Boxed Ice runs a production MongoDB cluster and often writes useful articles in their blog about running MongoDB.

  • If you’re interested in reading more about distributed computing theory, I highly recommend Leslie Lamport’s original Paxos paper, which is an entertaining and instructive read.

Also, if you enjoyed this, I write a blog that mostly covers advanced MongoDB topics.

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