The Knot Worldwide unifies data on single platform

A digital wedding products and services retailer is storing, managing and processing corporate data on one database.

Having to store, manage and process large volumes of data across multiple different applications, The Knot operates a large ecosystem of application programming interfaces (APIs), resulting in high demands on its data storage solutions.

The company, which has nearly 35 million users across 16 countries, operates a global vendor marketplace that connects more than 4 million couples per year with 850,000 local wedding professionals. The Knot  also offers customers a suite of personalized websites, tools, invitations and registry services.

To resolve issues caused by storing and managing large volumes of structured and unstructured data across multiple platforms, The Knot decided to migrate all of its disparate data to the MongoDB Atlas managed multi-cloud database, based on Amazon Web Services (AWS), which it had been using for data storage.

The retailer now operates around 15 different applications based on the MongoDB platform, which it has upgraded over the years from from version 2.6 to version 7.0. 

MongoDB Atlas provides access to all of The Knot’s metrics via a dashboard. Employees can detect data patterns for the last 24 hours, the last seven days, and the last month. If there is a red flag in any of those charts, they canidentify and change the problem in a short period time”

In addition, an alerting system makes recommendations for indices and checks the data modeling The Knot puts in place in the database to suggest changes.

“Changes in capacity happen behind the scenes without any disruption or action by the developer team,” said Vladimir Carballo, principal software engineer, The Knot Worldwide. “You just receive an email that tells you how much storage you’re now using. More importantly, from the user’s point of view it all happens with zero downtime, which translates into better-performing client applications.”