Scale your connections with Amazon DocumentDB using mongobetween
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This article discusses how to use mongobetween to scale connections beyond the connection limit of an Amazon DocumentDB instance.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Overview of Amazon DocumentDB and connection limits
- Using mongobetween as a connection pooler to multiplex connections to DocumentDB
- Setting up mongobetween on an Amazon EC2 instance
- Testing scenarios with direct connections to DocumentDB vs using mongobetween
- High availability deployment options for mongobetween (sidecar and service-based)
- Latency considerations when using mongobetween
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