Rethinking the role of MongoDB and AWS in a real-time architecture

The article discusses the challenges faced by a European Ad Technology customer when scaling their system, which initially used MongoDB and AWS for data storage and processing. As traffic increased to 700 million requests per day, infrastructure costs for the MongoDB cluster exceeded $30K per month, slowing down report generation and click processing. Asteriosoft conducted an in-depth analysis and proposed a solution by migrating MongoDB workload to Aerospike, reducing infrastructure costs to $5K per month and improving query processing throughput. The example highlights the importance of utilizing specialized tools instead of relying on generic solutions and emphasizes the need for architectural analysis to address accumulated problems in large-scale systems.