Customer Story

Software is shifting from developer-driven to agent-driven. With Manus 1.5, AI agents don’t just “help you code”; they spin up full-stack applications end-to-end. Ideas move from prompt to deployed app in minutes. It’s a glimpse of what’s next: rapid iteration, parallel exploration, and continuous change without human bottlenecks. That speed creates a new reality for […]

In the vast landscape of databases, ensuring zero-downtime upgrades and operation continuity remains a challenge. Due to inherent design limitations, traditional databases often introduce significant downtime during upgrades – a challenge that can spell operational chaos for businesses reliant on real-time data access.  Enter TiDB, a cutting-edge distributed SQL database that offers a solution to […]

Recently, I’ve been meeting customers across industries including AIaaS, Web3, and FinTech. No matter where I go, the conversation always turns to one thing: AI. Everyone’s asking the same question: “How will AI transform our business, and how does TiDB embrace this change?” So, I started sharing what had been on my mind lately. “The era […]

TiDB Cloud Essential is our new plan for teams that need a stronger balance of scalability, performance, and security than TiDB Cloud Starter, without the full enterprise surface area of TiDB Cloud Dedicated. Starting today, you can now provision fixed Request Capacity Units (RCUs) for predictable performance, grow instantly when you need more headroom, and […]

Ask any engineering team managing a modern application today, and you’ll hear the same frustrations: traffic spikes that can’t be predicted, autoscalers that react too slowly, and workloads that look nothing like they did yesterday. One hour you’re processing transactions, the next you’re serving analytical or vector queries — all in real time, all under […]

Founded in 2014 in Singapore, Ninja Van is a leading last-mile logistics provider operating across six countries in Southeast Asia: Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand — with nationwide coverage in each market. Ninja Van’s platform handles logistics for top-tier e-commerce players such as Amazon and Lazada. Offering services that span from parcel […]

At PingCAP, our mission with TiDB Cloud is to make data easier, faster, and more powerful for developers and enterprises. Today, we’re taking that vision one step further with a new capability: streaming real-time data changes directly from TiDB Cloud into the StreamNative Cloud ecosystem. This integration, powered by TiDB Cloud’s Changefeed feature, gives you […]

As digital services become more intelligent, personalized, and data-intensive, the infrastructure supporting them must evolve as well. Today’s applications aren’t just storing data, they’re making real-time decisions on it, often across globally distributed environments with high user concurrency and strict uptime requirements. Amazon Aurora, a fully managed relational database from AWS, is a common choice […]

The FinTech industry is innovating at record speed. From embedded payments and AI-driven fraud detection to real-time credit scoring and risk analytics, financial services are becoming faster, smarter, and more personalized. But behind the scenes, many platforms are still powered by legacy databases and architectures built for a different era. Traditional systems are struggling to […]

TiDB SCaiLE 2025, our new global conference for builders, operators, and AI infrastructure leaders shaping data-intensive systems, has officially opened its 2025 call for proposals (CFP). Formerly known as HTAP Summit, we’ve rebranded the event to reflect a bolder vision: helping leading companies scale smarter and build faster across distributed SQL, cloud-native architecture, and GenAI […]

As TiDB scales to support larger deployments, its core metadata management hub—the Placement Driver (PD)—must evolve to meet growing demands. This post explores how TiDB addresses PD’s challenges, including scalability bottlenecks, stability risks, and storage limitations. In this post, we’ll cover: Whether you’re optimizing large-scale deployments or curious about TiDB’s architecture, this post highlights how […]

This customer story is based on a technical presentation by the Flipkart engineering team at TiDB User Day India 2025.  Flipkart is one of India’s largest e-commerce platforms, serving millions of users across a complex ecosystem. Its operations span the full customer journey, from product discovery to order placement, and finally to delivery. This includes […]