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28th February 2010 - Link Blog

Notes from a production MongoDB deployment. Notes from running MongoDB for 8 months in production, with 664 million documents spread across 72 GB master and slave servers located in two different data centers.

Posted 28th February 2010 at 11:05 pm

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