Case Study: Chameleon achieves always-on, scalable, maintenance-free data infrastructure with Compose

An Onboarding App Built to Be Lean, Fast, and Scalable

Chameleon, an onboarding app from Portland, needed always‑on data to support user registrations, transactional user‑generated content, background tasks, summary lists, search and cardinality queries. With a two‑person engineering team, Chameleon could not justify managing the infrastructure, security, scalability, updates, backups and general health of databases like MongoDB, Redis and Elasticsearch themselves, so they turned to Compose for a managed solution.

Compose provided hosted MongoDB, Redis and Elasticsearch services, removing the operational burden and delivering consistent, predictable pricing, near‑zero downtime and hands‑off maintenance. As a result, Chameleon maintains data availability every second of every day, keeps its engineering team lean, and has seen improved reliability and scalability—outcomes Chameleon attributes directly to using Compose.

Chameleon

Brian Norton

Chameleon