EXTRA CREDIT V MONGODB: HOW THE U.K.’S DEPARTMENT OF WORK AND PENSIONS SCALED UNIVERSAL CREDIT TO MEET THE COVID-19 CRISIS

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent shutdowns posed a direct and unique challenge to the United Kingdom’s Department for Work and Pensions, as the number of active claimants spiked from more than 2 million just before the pandemic to more than 5 million in the span of a couple months. Learn how the DPW leveraged MongoDB to scale its microservices-based infrastructure to protect millions of citizens during a time of crisis.

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