International mirror for people.json

MongoDB University M201: MongoDB Performance
#1

The people.json file is hosted in an S3 bucket that lacks an international mirror or CDN. The first few lines arrive swiftly, after which things slow to a crawl. Less than 1kBps for the download. Could you please provide a different mirror?

Right now I can’t even get started with this course :frowning:

I’ve had this issue before with other courses and then the workaround was to fire up a Linux server of my own on AWS, in Europe, so I could download the file “internally” inside S3/AWS. Still… I’d much rather that you guys provide a performant download link.

Take care! :slight_smile:

#2

As I mentioned: my quick workaround was to spin up a temporary VM on AWS in Frankfurt. That one had no trouble downloading https://s3.amazonaws.com/m312/people.json. And from there on it was quick to download the file from my VM onto my local computer.

Still: that’s one hoop too many for a lot of people to jump through :wink:

#3

Tess_Sluijter

I agree. I’ll pass your comment on to the curriculum development team. It seems to me that it should be possible to link the download to a CDN that’s available world-wide. Thanks for the suggestion.

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#4

Have you guys fixed this already?! You guys work fast :slight_smile:

I’m on chapter 3, and we need to get the restaurants.json.zip, which rings in at 30MB. The download started at 40kBps, went down to 15kBps and then all of a sudden exploded into >1MBps :smiley: Very odd, but at least it downloaded pretty quickly.

#5

@ Tess_Sluijter

I don’t know – I just passed the suggestion along. But in any case, I’m glad it’s improved! :wink: