A Series of MongoPush Events
MongoPush is not only a data migration tool but also a database cluster transformation solution. Data migration is one of many functions mongopush has. Another Bold Stroke In my tenure at Professional Services, December has been a month full of customer requested cancellations and thus resulting in many last minute engagements. Right before the December holidays in 2020, I was assigned to an Atlas migration consultation on a short notice. A colleague of mine already demonstrated to the customer a replica set migration to Atlas using the mongomirror tool in a previous meeting. The customer asked me to use the same procedure and tool to mirror a 3-shard cluster to Atlas. Unfortunately, it was not possible to migrate a sharded cluster using a simple mongomirror command. After explaining the steps of migrating a sharded cluster using multiple modified mongomirror instances, the idea of simplifying the process of migrating sharded clusters began brewin...