MongoDB with Async Python

This course will teach you how to use MongoDB and document databases to build simpler and faster data-driven applications.

We start by explaining the origin and major concepts of NoSQL and document databases. You then learn how to work with MongoDB from its native shell as well as many of the CLI and GUI management tools.

Many MongoDB courses stop there. This course is meant to be a practical end-to-end coverage of MongoDB. We go beyond scratching the surface by covering real-world topics.

You'll see how to use Beanie (a popular ODM for MongoDB - think ORM for NoSQL) to map classes to MongoDB. Beanie is based on state-of-the-art Python technologies such as Pydantic and Python's async and await.

In this code-based and hands-on, demo-driven course, we will build some simple example apps using Beanie. Then we'll move on to modeling real PyPI data with 100,000s of records in MongoDB. Once we have our Python code working with the PyPI data, we'll build out a full FastAPI API around the data showing the smooth integration of Beanie and async MongoDB within FastAPI.

After we master working with MongoDB from Python, we'll turn our attention to performance. We take a large database with millions of data points and make it run hundreds of times faster than you get out-of-the-box with MongoDB. We test our performance changes with both custom Python code and the Locust load testing framework.

We wrap up the course by deploying MongoDB to production Linux servers. There are a few very important steps to getting MongoDB running in production and we'll go step-by-step through this setup.

In the end, you'll be ready to start building and running high-performance, MongoDB-backed, data-driven applications.