ILT: 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

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Program Datasheets


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.


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  • Public Training Session Name
  • The names and email addresses of all attendees you'd like to register

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This course is available as a private session for Precision Learning Programs (PLPs). With private training, you can select specific courses to deliver to your team in a dedicated classroom, on a schedule that works for you.

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