Date: May 29, 2025
Location: Bolt HQ, Tallinn, Estonia
Overview:
Reimagining Scalability for Data-Intensive Applications
Traditional SQL and NoSQL databases have reached their limits in today’s high-scale, real-time digital world. Join us for a dynamic, expert-led meetup as we explore how global-scale platforms are breaking through bottlenecks by adopting TiDB—a distributed SQL database designed for both transactional and analytical workloads.
In this deep-dive technical session, you’ll hear real-world insights from the engineers and architects behind PingCAP and Bolt, uncovering how they deliver performance, scale, and resilience to over 100 million users worldwide.
Agenda:
16:30 – 17:00 Networking
17:00 – 17:10 Welcome talk
17:10 – 17:40 I like to move IT, Move IT – Replication in TiDB & MySQL by Leandro Morgdo, Senior Database Reliability Engineer at Bolt
17:40 – 18:05 What is TiDB: Scaling Beyond Traditional SQL + TiDB 8.5 Release by Daniel van Eeden Technical Solution Engineer at PingCAP
18:05 – 18:30 TiDB journey in Bolt: learnings/tricks/challenges, by Andrei Fedorov DBRE tech lead at Bolt
19:00 Beer and Pizza
What You’ll Learn
- Why traditional databases fail at scale – Understand the architectural limits of SQL and NoSQL in modern, high-throughput environments.
- How Bolt scaled to 100M global users – Learn how Bolt overcame NoSQL challenges by migrating to TiDB.
- Real-world migration insights – Discover practical lessons and gotchas from moving a live, high-traffic application to TiDB.
- HTAP in action – See how TiDB bridges transactional and analytical workloads in a single, unified engine.
Ask the experts – Live Q&A with SMEs from PingCAP and Bolt.
Speaker
Leandro Morgdo, Senior Database Reliability Engineer at Bolt
Specialising in ensuring the availability, performance, and security of the company’s MySQL and TiDB databases. He is a seasoned “Unixy” engineer with over 15 years of experience in the MySQL ecosystem.
Daniël van Eeden, Technical support enginee at PingCAP
Daniël van Eeden works for PingCAP as a technical support engineer for TiDB. Before joining TiDB he worked as a DBA for a large website maintaining a large fleet of MySQL servers.
Andrei Fedorov, DBRE tech lead at Bolt
Staff database reliability engineer at Bolt, DBRE tech lead. Ex MySQL NDB Cluster engineer at Oracle