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N. CottrellMongoDB Topology Designhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5817-0_8

8. Special Use Cases and Configurations

Nicholas Cottrell1 
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St-Aubin-sur-Mer, France
 

Apparently, there is redundancy in memory: You store the same memory in different parts of your brain for accessing at different speeds. That speed would depend on the frequency of use and the importance of the knowledge.

—Bill Nye, mechanical engineer and “Science Guy”

In this chapter, we cover a series of use cases for specific configurations of MongoDB in production, such as hybrid on-prem/cloud clusters, low-latency applications, using an LDAP pool for authentication, and how to store large binary files.

Scaling with secondary reads

In most cases, applications ...

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