Case Study: The Washington Post’s Arc XP boosts developer productivity and scales digital publishing with MongoDB Atlas

The Washington Post boosts developer productivity by 70% with MongoDB

The Washington Post's cloud-native digital experience platform, Arc XP, needed a scalable and reliable document database to support its high-volume content creation and global publishing demands. Facing explosive growth, the internal engineering team was spending too much time managing database infrastructure instead of focusing on feature development. To solve this, they partnered with MongoDB, initially using MongoDB Enterprise Advanced and later migrating to the fully managed MongoDB Atlas service.

By adopting MongoDB Atlas, Arc XP freed its developers from backend operations, boosting their productivity by an estimated 70%. The solution provided the performance, security, and geographic flexibility to scale, ultimately powering nearly 2,000 sites in 27 countries and handling 4.5 billion articles for two billion unique users monthly. MongoDB enabled Arc XP to innovate with features like full-text search and is now exploring Vector Search for AI-powered services, solidifying its role as a key partner in Arc XP's business transformation.

The Washington Post