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Course Outline

Advanced Data Manipulations

  • Customizing the Mongo Shell
  • Efficient management of CRUD operations (inserts, queries, updates, deletes)
  • Essential administrative commands

Performance optimization

  • Utilising built-in monitoring tools: mongotop, mongostat
  • Analysing memory and I/O performance
  • MongoDB Cloud Manager and Munin
  • Identifying sub-optimal queries using the query profiler
  • Understanding storage engines: MMAPv1 and WiredTiger
  • Explaining the explain object

Indexing and special collections

  • Managing indexes and understanding MongoDB indexing internals
  • Implementing single field and compound indexes
  • Creating indexes on arrays and sub-documents
  • Deploying Geo Indexes
  • Working with capped collections, TTL (time-to-live) settings, and tailable cursors

Aggregation

  • Single-purpose aggregation
  • Constructing aggregation pipelines
  • Introduction to map-reduce

Replication

  • Understanding asynchronous replication in MongoDB
  • Setting up and maintaining replica sets
  • Implementing write concern and read preference settings
  • Handling replication failures

Sharding

  • Understanding how auto-sharding functions
  • Configuring a MongoDB sharded cluster
  • Strategically selecting a shard key
  • Advanced administration of sharded clusters
  • Managing unbalanced sharded clusters
  • Handling chunks (splitting, merging, and migrating)

Security

  • Authentication and authorization in replica sets and sharded clusters
  • Managing privileges and custom roles
  • Best practices for secure deployment

Backup and Restore Plans

  • Filesystem-based strategies
  • Using mongodump and mongorestore
  • Point-in-time recovery

Requirements

Familiarity with basic and intermediate concepts, combined with several years of practical on-the-job experience.

 14 Hours

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