Hudl’s video analysis platform helps coaches win by delivering secure access to video analysis tools from any computer or mobile device. For those who follow Division 1 college sports in the United States, you’ll be interested in knowing that the Hudl platform stores video for 99% of DI schools’ top recruits.
As Hudl has grown, it has outgrown some of its infrastructure.
For example, when Hudl hit a limit on EC2 (where SQL wouldn’t scale on a single instance), the growing company needed to recruit a new database. After evaluating different options, Hudl chose MongoDB.
According to Hudl CTO Brian Kaiser: “MongoDB changed devops from a necessary evil to something that is transforming the company, helping us move quickly. It makes innovation easy and is universally recognized at our company because it’s been so impactful on our growth.”
The numbers speak for themselves. Today, MongoDB stores 650 million plays (atomic unit such as point for volleyball, play for football) and associated metadata, which gets 1 billion video views per month. The MongoDB-based platform has streamed 18 petabytes of data in 2014. During peak football season, the platform ingests 25 hours of raw video per minute; that’s one quarter of what YouTube ingests.
Big numbers for a small company!
With MongoDB, Hudl has achieved steady, consistent growth and enabled Hudl to double in size. “MongoDB really facilitates rapid iterations, so the dev team can try things out and make mistakes – it’s magical for that,” said Kaiser. “MongoDB has led ops to promote squad growth and really empowered our company, and that’s something we’re proud of.”
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