Data Resilience: Atlas
Learn to design resilient MongoDB Atlas deployments using multi-region and multi-cloud clusters, automated failover, and continuous backups that keep your applications online during failures. Build skills in protecting sensitive data and meeting compliance requirements by applying Atlas features for encryption, access control, workload isolation, and backup governance.
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Upon completion of the Data Resilience: Atlas skill and skill check, you will earn a Credly Badge that you are able to share with your network. |
Learning Objectives
Understand MongoDB’s Resilient Architecture
Design MongoDB deployments that withstand failures by using replica sets, multi-region or multi-cloud architectures, and workload isolation to maintain availability and performance during disruptions.
Identify Security and Compliance Best Practices in MongoDB
Protect sensitive data and meet regulatory requirements by combining geo-distributed clusters, strong access controls, and security best practices across your MongoDB deployments.
Understand how to Manage Failover and Backups
Use MongoDB Atlas’s automated failover, backup, and backup-compliance features to ensure fast, reliable recovery from incidents while meeting your organization’s resilience and governance requirements.
Daniel Curran | Senior Software Engineer
Daniel is a Senior Software Engineer at MongoDB. Before joining MongoDB, he worked as an Instructional Designer and Content Developer specialising in technical content for a host of international clients. Daniel's goal is to remove obstacles so learners can feel confident on their journey to become masters of MongoDB.
Emilio Scalise | Staff Technologist
Emilio is a multi-skilled IT specialist with a vast knowledge in system administration, databases, software development, network security, and cloud solutions. He is currently a Staff Technologist at MongoDB, producing internal and external learning materials. With over 8 years at MongoDB Support Organization, including five as a Staff Technical Support Engineer, he's developed considerable expertise in MongoDB's products and cloud services. In addition, Emilio is a certified MySQL DBA and experienced in technical translations between English and Italian.
Manuel Fontan Garcia | Senior Technologist
Manuel is a Senior Technologist on the Curriculum team at MongoDB. Previously he was a Senior Technical Services Engineer in the Core team at MongoDB. In between Manuel worked as a database reliability engineer at Slack for a little over 2 years and then for Cognite until he re-joined MongoDB. With over 15 years experience in software development and distributed systems, he is naturally curious and holds a Telecommunications Engineering MSc from Vigo University (Spain) and a Free and Open Source Software MSc from Rey Juan Carlos University (Spain).
Sarah Evans | Senior Curriculum Engineer
Sarah is a Senior Curriculum Engineer on the Curriculum team at MongoDB. Prior to MongoDB, she taught and developed curricula for developer bootcamps. Sarah has a MAT degree from Columbia University Teachers College and studied Software Engineering at Flatiron School in Chicago, IL.
My name is Sarah. I'm a senior curriculum designer at MongoDB. In this skill on data resilience with Atlas, you'll learn how to design and implement a comprehensive data resilience strategy using Atlas, MongoDB's cloud support managed platform. Before we design our strategy, we need to understand some of the most common threats to our system. With that in mind, we'll start by looking at some of the most common types of incidents that can cause catastrophic failure and how MongoDB Atlas is designed to mitigate these risks.
Then, we'll tackle the real challenge, optimizing resilience for your specific use case. Next, we'll explore how MongoDB Atlas is designed for resilience. We'll start with replica sets. These are your foundation for automatic failover and data durability.
Then we'll explore multi region, multi cloud deployments that protect against data center and provider level outages.
We'll also cover how workload isolation separates critical operations from routine tasks, preventing performance issues from impacting essential business functions. Next, we'll move beyond infrastructure to focus on security and compliance.
You'll learn how to leverage Atlas to defend against external cyber attacks, mitigate internal risks like accidental deletions, and implement strict access controls to prevent unauthorized database entry.
We know even the best design systems must account for failure. We'll explore how MongoDB Atlas' automated backup and recovery features can help you meet compliance standards and recover from disasters with minimal downtime and data loss. Finally, to put these concepts into practice, we'll apply what we've learned to design a complete resilient strategy for a fintech company, using best practices to choose the right Atlas features, configurations, and policies to meet their uptime, security, and compliance demands. Once you've learned this content, you'll be ready to apply your new skills by earning the Data Resilient Skill Badge. It's more than a digital badge you can share in LinkedIn. It's proof that you know how to design, configure, and maintain resilient MongoDB Atlas deployments that protect data and ensure uptime under failure scenarios. Let's get started.
