Modern startups use multiple apps to manage their day to day operations like HR, payroll, accounting, CRM, vendors, and contractors. One of the biggest compromises organizations make is not leveraging cross-application analytics, as each app’s data stays in their own silo. Juntrax’s vision is to bring all the data into a single platform so that users can run powerful analytics on it.
MongoDB + Node.js
Most of our services run on Node.js, making MongoDB a natural choice. The high read to write ratio and out-of-the-box replica set were instrumental in our selection. Thinking in NoSQL, documents in collections also helped us in achieving fast development cycles as iterations were quick and easy.
Growing up with MongoDB
We started the cloud journey with Compose.io (acquired by IBM), then moved to mLab (now part of MongoDB) before eventually settling with the MongoDB Atlas service when it was widely available.
One of the biggest benefits was that it fit right into our AWS VPC workflow, giving us the ability to create clusters in multiple geographical zones. This feature is very critical to our clients as laws of different countries mandate certain data storage in their geographical boundaries.
The benefit of managed clusters also saves us valuable resources, time, and money, which we are then able to direct towards product development.
The continuous backup service too is a lifesaver and gave us a confidence boost on the reliability of our applications.
Our future with MongoDB
We are very confident with MongoDB and plan to run multiple workloads on it. We’re exploring integrating MongoDB Stitch for some services and using MongoDB Charts for internal analytics tools.
Impact of the Startup Accelerator
MongoDB’s Startup Accelerator had a huge impact for us in two ways- 1) As a pre-revenue startup, it gave us access to Atlas resources and 2) the support from MongoDB teams. They invited us to multiple webinars and events which were a valuable learning experience, allowing us to validate our plans.
MongoDB support is also excellent and most of the issues are resolved by just following the extensive yet easy-to-navigate documentation. In case the solution is not found, help is just an email away.
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