MongoDB with Async Python Transcripts
Chapter: Foundations: async
Lecture: Async for Scalability
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The side of async that's actually super interesting to us as somebody who would be talking to a database
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Potentially with multiple clients multiple connections talking to a database like Mongo is async for scalability
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Now scalability gets thrown around as a buzzword
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It just means more processing more awesome to a lot of people but really specifically it's about being able to add more and more
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Requests to the same system without that system dropping off in terms of performance.
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If I quadruple the number of requests to my system, do I get one quarter or worse of the performance or does it kind of just stay the same?
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It doesn't mean any individual request is going to go any faster, maybe it even goes a tiny bit slower.
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But it's the ability to do many things at the similar speed as we could do one.
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In the context of this course, it's the ability to do many database requests in the relative speed and performance as maybe one request.