Show and Tell: MongoDB at foursquare | Foursquare Engineering Blog
engineering.foursquare.com/2011/12/21/show-and-tell-mongodb-at-foursquare
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On Friday 12/9, @cooperb gave a talk at the MongoSV 2011 conference covering our experiences deploying MongoDB on Amazon Web Services, including some of the operational tricks we use to keep our database servers highly performant.