Driving innovation through data refactoring is crucial for businesses to stay competitive and deliver exceptional user experiences. However, legacy applications often pose a significant challenge due to technical debt and the need to modernize them. MongoDB Atlas, a popular NoSQL database, offers flexibility, scalability, and agility, making it an ideal choice for modernizing applications. By leveraging cloud-native databases like MongoDB Atlas, businesses can optimize performance, adapt to changing needs, and ensure data availability. The Refractory approach with MongoDB Atlas enables organizations to break down monolithic legacy applications into smaller, independent services that can be developed, deployed, and scaled independently. This approach promotes modularity, fault isolation, and enhances the ability to leverage cloud-native technologies. The solution also includes a 4-step process: decompose and decouple, improve and reimagine code, arrange functions into containers, and re-architect legacy data structures. By adopting this approach, businesses can unlock significant value trapped in legacy applications and codebases, achieve improved performance, flexibility, and scalability, and minimize the limitations posed by structured databases.