SkillsMatter and 10gen Announce MongoUK is Back

Skills Matter and 10gen are very pleased to announce the popular MongoUK conference is back -- coming to London on September 19th! MongoUK is a one-day conference dedicated to the open source, non-relational database MongoDB. The program is a work in progress, but will feature both introductory and advanced talks on MongoDB schema design, indexing, administration, replication, sharding... (follow #mongouk for program updates)

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MongoDB Health Tips

David Mytton, of Boxed Ice, has posted his slides of his presentation at MongoUK. The purpose of the presentation is was to provide various MongoDB health tips.

Here is a summary of the points that David discusses:

• Keep everything in memory - memory is faster (duh!)
• Monitor your disk storage - MongoDB preallocates space
• db.serverStatus() is your friend when it comes to looking at specifics of a particular server

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