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Scaling MongoDB at Mailbox - Dropbox
“Mailbox has grown unbelievably quickly. During that growth, one performance issue that impacted us was MongoDB’s database-level write lock. The amount of time Mailbox’s backends were waiting for the write lock was resulting in user-perceived latency. While MongoDB allows you to add shards to a...” (from the page’s text)
In short: Learn how Dropbox's Mailbox team scaled MongoDB, tackled slowness issues, and replicated updates after snapshot creation. (AI summary)
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