Episode 185: Dwight Merriman on Replication

Recording Venue: MongoSF, San Francisco

Guest: Dwight Merriman

As application data size and throughput have outgrown the processing and storage needs of commodity servers, replication has become an increasingly important strategy. In this episode, Robert talks with Dwight Merriman about database replication. Topics covered include replication basics, master-slave versus master-master, failure and recovery, replication versus backup, whether replication primarily for scaling or for availability, and the internals of MongoDB replica sets.

• Jared Rosoff of 10 gen presentation about MongoDB replication
• Books about MongoDB
• MongoDB blog
• Jeremy Zawodny presentation about MySQL replication
• James Hamilton blog post about inter-data center replication

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