Case Study: NewOrbit achieves lightning-fast, massively scalable apps with Microsoft Azure DocumentDB

NewOrbit takes flight with Azure DocumentDB

NewOrbit is a small UK tech firm that builds bespoke web and mobile apps for a wide range of clients. When asked to create a car‑mileage tracker holding records for more than 6 million vehicles, the company needed extreme speed, low latency, and massive scalability without adding operations staff.

By using Azure DocumentDB (now Azure Cosmos DB) together with Azure Table and Blob storage, Traffic Manager, Load Balancer, queues and WebJobs, NewOrbit achieved single‑query JSON reads with end‑to‑end responses around 100 ms (database calls <10 ms), seamless horizontal partitioning, and fully managed infrastructure so the team operates without DBAs. The result is cost‑efficient, globally scalable applications, faster development cycles, strong Microsoft support, and the ability to tackle additional planet‑scale projects like Finygo.

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Frans Lytzen

CTO