[00:48:31] <sabrehagen> i'm setting up AWS for the first time. i found the MongoDB Official AMI called "MongoDB with 1000 IOPS". I'm entirely new to this. Shoudld I use this image, or make my own?
[00:54:30] <sabrehagen> also, how do i check the size of my MongoDB working set?
[01:14:44] <on247> So i managed to get mongo to build and run
[01:31:17] <jm9000> With NoSQL is it ever a better approach to store the same data in two places to reduce queries?
[01:37:00] <jm9000> I have a situation with a chat app where there is a table for topics, and then there is a table for all the posts. The first post in a topic is effectively the topic summary. To query for the last 100 topics created it takes 101 queries; 1 query for the list, then 1 query on each result. Alternatively I could just store that data in the topic itself, which would reduce it from 101 queries to
[02:20:17] <edrocks_> jm9000: organize your data with you access patterns in mind(don't be too afraid to duplicate it). also mongodb calls tables collections as it's a document store