Brian Parsons

One of the problems that MongoDB users face is the limitation on writes. I ran into this problem trying to scale MongoDB for a digital media company a few years ago. Mailbox/Dropbox has one approach to getting over this hurdle and even wrote a custom tool to help. Well worth a read if you are using MongoDB for anything.

Link: Dropbox Tech Blog » Blog Archive » Scaling MongoDB at Mailbox

Great data here on Amazon RDS performance with different levels of provisioned IOPS. A good guide to use as your app grows and needs to go from tens to hundreds to thousands of ops per second.

Link: Benchmarking RDS with Provisioned IOPS