Percona Live Europe 2016: "MongoDB 101, Part Two" with David Murphy Kim Wilkins

The first day of the Percona Live Europe Open Source Database Conference in Amsterdam is moving right along. The tutorials today have been well-attended, and contain a great deal of useful information.

One of the more popular tutorials was  on MongoDB 101, Part  One and Part Two. This hands-on tutorial showed how to navigate your way through the steps that lead to becoming a MongoDB DBA.

The afternoon session (part two) covered more advanced topics for the DBA and shared best practices and tips on how to perform the most common activities.

This tutorial covered:

• Monitoring and trending for your MongoDB installation
• Performance problems – what to look for
• Binary and logical backup
• What tools to use
• Sharding
• Shard tagging
• Understanding the differences between database engine types: B-Tree, LSM, Fractal Trees
• MMAPv1: pros and cons
• PerconaFT: pros and cons
• WiredTiger: pros and cons
• MongoRocks: pros and cons
• Complex replica sets
• Scaling up and down gotchas
• Taming the schema
• Managing users in a practical way

Percona’s EMEA Field Marketing Manager Kamal Taibi was able to chat with David Murphy (Percona’s MongoDB Practice Manager) who, along with Rackspace’s Kimberly Wilkins (Principal Engineer Databases), presented part two of the MongoDB 101 tutorial. Check it out below!