At MongoDB, we experimented to see if we could predict each DBaaS customer’s demand fluctuations, and auto-scale them using this foreknowledge. Senior Data Scientist Matthieu Humeau and I spoke about this experiment at Data Council and NYC Systems. Here’s the video from NYC Systems, and a written version is below. --- Replica Sets MongoDB is generally deployed as a group of servers, where one is the primary and at least two are secondaries. The client sends all writes to the primary, and ...
