Staying Alive: A Large Project on a Single NoSQL

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A case study of building and running a large production project using a single NoSQL database instead of switching later to SQL. Covers trade-offs, operational experience, and practical pitfalls when scaling a NoSQL-based backend for a high-load system, with concrete lessons learned from the project.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 10:35MongoDB selection
3. 22:27Scaling and sharding issues
4. 34:17Redis clusters
5. 40:09Elasticsearch usage
6. 45:00Recommendations
7. 47:56Q&A

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