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For applications that outgrow the resources of a single database server, MongoDB can convert to a sharded cluster, automatically managing failover and balancing of nodes, with few or no changes to the original application code. This talk discusses when to shard and continues on to describe MongoDB's sharding architecture, how to configure a shard cluster (with several example topologies), schema design for sharding and how to pick the best shard key.ng with MongoDB.

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