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Meltdown Performance Impact on MongoDB: AWS, Azure & DigitalOcean

Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities What are these new critical vulnerabilities? “Meltdown” and “Spectre” are vulnerabilities in the way many modern microprocessor designs implement speculative execution of instructions. Independently discovered last June, these vulnerabilities can be exploited by malicious programs to steal sensitive information from personal computers, mobile devices, and even cloud infrastructures where millions of…

XFS vs EXT4 – Comparing MongoDB Performance on AWS EC2

AWS is an extremely popular and trusted cloud platform for managing MongoDB deployments, but the question of XFS vs EXT4 has many developers wondering which Linux file system will give them the best performance for their applications. MongoDB’s official guide on deploying to production recommends using the XFS file system on Linux, especially when deploying…

MongoDB on AWS: How to Choose the Right EC2 Instance Type for Your MongoDB Server?

Let’s face it. AWS has gotten incredibly complicated. A simple task like picking the right instance type for your MongoDB on AWS requires a fair bit of research. How do you know which server type to choose in the alphabet soup of options? In this blog post, we’ll break down the different instance types and…