DA630: Distributed Systems and Transactions
Explore how configuration choices impact speed, latency, durability, and business correctness in MongoDB. Through hands-on experimentation, you'll learn when and how to use different read and write concerns, as well as transactions. This course also covers key design decisions for distributed document databases to ensure both high performance and reliable data integrity.
Advanced Training: Distributed Systems and Transactions (DA630)
Overview
Nearly all MongoDB production systems are highly available and distributed; even if distribution is only over a small distance, data is held in multiple independent places. Students will have learned in foundation training the decisions required to define “durable” and “safe” in a distributed system and how these responsibilities partly fall to the developer to implement correctly. In this workshop we experiment with settings that affect speed, latency, durability and business correctness to learn how and when to use concerns and transactions in MongoDB.
Intended Audience
This training workshop is intended for developers who have completed MDB300 (MongoDB Production Readiness) and want to fully understand where a distributed document database necessitates important additional design decisions. This workshop is for those who care about performance and correctness and how to achieve both.
Workshop Objectives
In this training workshop, you will learn how to:
choose the appropriate write concern to ensure correctness of your application without unnecessarily sacrificing performance
safely and effectively use retryable writes
understand the implications of selecting the wrong read concern and choose the appropriate read concern to ensure correctness of your application without unnecessarily sacrificing performance
decide when and when not to use transactions, taking into account contention and performance considerations
Duration
1 day
Learning Paths
Please see the MongoDB Learning Paths here!
Program Datasheets
Meetings
Course prerequisites
This course has the following prerequisites:
- MDB300: MongoDB Production Readiness
Language
This course is offered in multiple languages. Coordinate with your MongoDB representative to find out more.
Course access
This course is entirely virtual and will be conducted over Zoom video conferencing and Instruqt hands-on lab environments.
TBD
This course is available through Private Training for customers with 7 or more Training Subscriptions.
Private Training allows you to select specific courses and deliver them to your team in a private classroom, scheduled at your convenience.
Please contact your Professional Services representative to discuss available dates for private training.
Important: Private sessions can only be arranged if 7 or more engineers commit to attending.
