GridFS: The Perfect Solution for Media Storage Dwayne McNab, Senior DBA, Vonage Business MongoDB Evenings Atlanta Atlanta Tech Village October 6, 2016

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ABOUT VONAGE
• Corporate office located in Holmdel, NJ
• We provide UCaaS and CPaaS
• We are rapidly growing

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Current Architecture
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The take off
• Why MongoDB?
• Storing media files in MongoDB
• Ops Manager is the solution to administrator’s nightmare
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Why mongoDB?

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• Schema-less design
 Allows our developers to spend less time on design and more on development
 Heterogeneous data types
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• Storing large files in relational databases
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• GridFS saved the day!
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• Redundancy
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• Horizontal scaling
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GridFS for voicemails storage in mongoDB
• No limit on file size
- File are broken up into 255KB chunk size
- Maximize performance and minimize resource usage

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• Your metadata and your files are stored in the same location
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• Sharding + GridFS = success!
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Ops-manager is the solution to administrator’s
nightmare.

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• Monitoring
- Easy to read dashboard to display performance metrics
- Set alerts to notify you when certain events take place
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• Automation gents
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- Add and remove hosts with a click of a button
- Upgrade and downgrade made simple
- Create replicaSets or shards
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Questions?
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