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Jean da SilvaThis post was originally published in January 2022 and was updated in February 2025. One of the reasons for using MongoDB is its simplicity in scaling its structure, either as Replicaset(scale-up) or as Sharded Cluster(scale-out). Although a bit tricky in Sharded environments, the reverse process is also feasible. From the possibilities, you can: Reduce the […]
Configuring and managing backups is one of the top priorities among the many tasks we deal with daily in our database instances. In this context, it’s not rare to see deployments with more than one mongod process running per node, creating a multi-instance environment. Although this approach is highly discouraged due to the potential risk […]
One of the most common tasks for database administrators is checking logs; you can either work directly with the file or process it using another tool. Either way, regularly checking the logs remains essential. Within this context, certain log messages occasionally begin to appear, yet, unfortunately, there isn’t much literature on some of them; that’s […]
As almost a tradition, a newer major release of MongoDB is born every year, and this year, it’s no different. Many changes and new features are brought to the system, and as part of keeping in tune with the changes and how they can impact us, we go through the changes to better understand them. […]
Quite often we see that the main operational storage is used in conjunction with some additional services, for example, for caching or full-text search. Another architecture approach using multiple databases is microservices, where every microservice has its own database better optimized for the tasks of this particular service. For example, you can use MySQL for […]
One of the main topics we have today is surely about security. On a daily routine, this can pass unnoticed, but sooner or later, we have to implement or work on some security guidelines. And today, we are going to discuss one of them, which is Field Encryption. Feature Introduction Discussing the feature per se, […]