To successfully understand every chapter on this book, you need access to a MongoDB 3.0 instance.

You can choose where and how you will run it. We know that there are many ways you can do it. So, pick one.

To execute the queries and commands, I recommend you do this on a mongo shell. Every time I do this outside the mongo shell, I will warn you.

In Chapter 8, Logging and Real-time Analytics with MongoDB, you will need to have Node.js installed on your machine and it should have access to your MongoDB instance.