Deployment with Docker

The database

While SQL databases have come a long way in their ability to be sharded and clustered and generally provide good performance, many of cluster-friendly solutions have been based on NoSQL and in most cases use a key/value storage; plus, they have been gaining ground versus the entrenched SQL players in the ecosystem with each passing year. To get our feet wet quickest and with least amount of effort, we'll choose MongoDB here, which is a breeze to get working, and because it is NoSQL, we don't have to set up any kind of schema either, massively reducing our need for tricky configurations!

Warning! The default setup for MongoDB is very easy to do, but it does not enable any security by default, so anyone with network access to that ...