Tricks to Treat Your Database: Spooky MongoDB Schema Anti-Patterns and How to Avoid Them

Designing the right database schema is an essential skill for any MongoDB developer. You've probably heard the best practices many times before, but with Halloween just around the corner, let's take a more sinister route.

Instead of focusing on the "right way" to do it, we'll confront the spooky anti-patterns lurking in your database schema. We'll learn how to identify these problems and, more importantly, how to exorcise them from your schema once and for all.

In this session, we'll dive into six common MongoDB schema design anti-patterns, all revolving around document sizing, and learn how to overcome them.