Implementing sharding for some of our biggest collections on MongoDB and scale horizontally.To be prepared for additional growth and to give the best performance to our users, we started investigating solutions for scale. With growth and the deployment of new features, we had to scale our existing document database cluster both horizontally and vertically from time to time. One of these data stores was MongoDB, which plays a key role in our application stack, because it’s being used for customer-facing use cases like payment transaction risk analysis as well as internal tools like a customer support portal. Traffic growth and new product features resulted in many scalability challenges, including for our data stores. Venmo had 44% YoY Total Payment Volume growth in 2021. That means connecting people to their money in the most intuitive and fun way possible, and then connecting people with each other. We want to take that magic of sending money with Venmo and cascade it into every place where people use money. Refer Venmo Statistics & Facts for more details.īut we’re just getting started. And it worked: people love sending money with Venmo, and we are growing by leaps and bounds! Venmo was founded on the principles of breaking down the intimidating barriers around financial transactions to make them intuitive, friendly, and even fun. The content and opinions in this post are those of the third-party author. This is a guest post authored by Kushal Shah, Member of Technical Staff 2, Database Engineer at PayPal Inc., and Puneeth Melavoy, Senior Software Engineer at Venmo.
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