Fault Tolerance and High Availability
In this chapter, we will try to fit in the information that we didn’t manage to discuss in the previous chapters, and we will place emphasis on some other topics. Throughout the previous 14 chapters, we have gone all the way from covering the basic concepts of effective querying, to administration and data management, to scaling and high-availability (HA) concepts.
We will discuss how our application design should be accommodating and proactive with regard to our database needs. We will go over patterns and anti-patterns for schema design.
Day-to-day operations are another area that we will discuss, including tips and best practices that can help us to avoid nasty surprises down the line.
In light of the continued attempts by ransomware to infect and hold MongoDB servers hostage, we will offer more tips on security.
Finally, we will try to sum up the advice that’s been given in a series of checklists that should be...
