In addition to the documentation, videos from the conferences are a great place to start: http://www.10gen.com/presentations/mongoboston-2011/schema-design-at-

In addition to the documentation, videos from the conferences are a great place to start: http://www.10gen.com/presentations/mongoboston-2011/schema-design-at-scale http://www.10gen.com/presentations/mongoboston-2011/schema-d... http://www.10gen.com/presentations/mongosf-2011/practical-scaling-and-sharding http://www.10gen.com/presentations/mongosf-2011/practical-sc...