Case Study: Yesware achieves 800,000 users and sustained ROI with mLab's hosted MongoDB DBaaS

From Launch to 800,000 Users, mLab Keeps Delivering ROI to Yesware

Yesware, an all‑in‑one sales toolkit that integrates with salespeople’s email to provide tracking, templates, automation and analytics, needed a cloud‑hosted database solution that would let the startup scale without hiring a dedicated internal DBA team. To meet that challenge it chose mLab’s Database‑as‑a‑Service hosted MongoDB platform to work with its Heroku stack and to get expert help on data modeling, querying, indexing and cost‑effective long‑term data retention.

mLab provisioned and managed replica sets, sharded clusters and temporary staging clusters, provided Telemetry monitoring and hands‑on architecture guidance, and enabled a lightweight oplog‑triggered async processing solution. The result: Yesware scaled from launch to support more than 800,000 users while maintaining a consistently positive ROI versus building those operations in‑house, conserving engineering resources and achieving near‑real‑time processing and reliable performance — benefits Yesware continues to realize with mLab.

Yesware

Steve Pescatore

Principal Software Engineer