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Some of these questions are answered in a separate set of slides, which the author links to in the comments of the post. Hardware looks like a single server, 2x4 core CPUs, 32 GB of RAM, and a FC SAN.

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Single node, eh? I thought MongoDB was not supposed to be run in that configuration.

They're probably running 1+ Mongod process/node per core - not exactly ideal though.

We run one mongod master, one slave (soon to be two slaves). These are used across all the api servers.

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