DWP's agile response to COVID-19 saw it scale Universal Credit 10x with MongoDB to meet demand.

“March 2020 took us by surprise - and that’s an understatement.”

“For us all, UC failure has real-life consequences and that can mean the difference between paying rent or feeding the family. We just couldn’t let that happen.”

“Agile development, multi-disciplinary teams, rapid iteration and weekly releases have all helped us react seamlessly to changes in demand. MongoDB has been able to cope with that all the way through and gave us the agility and flexibility we so needed.”

“I became much more interested in MongoDB Atlas as we scaled in order to take away the stress of worrying about infrastructure, security and resilience. After all, we're here to provide benefits to a nation not to run database clusters.”