Recently valued at $8.4 billion, Bolt has experienced 400% growth since the pandemic, making it the fastest growing company in Europe. However, as its business rapidly expanded, its fleet of MySQL databases became difficult to scale, operate, and maintain.
In this on-demand webinar, Leandro Morgado, Senior Database Reliability Engineer at Bolt, recounts the company’s journey from legacy MySQL to distributed SQL. He shares in-depth insights from the trenches that showcase Bolt’s process for finding a viable solution.
Key topics include:
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- Why Bolt shifted to a microservices architecture, and how this impacted their MySQL data infrastructure
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- How the company evaluated potential MySQL alternatives
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- Why Bolt chose TiDB, an open source distributed SQL database, to replace MySQL over other solutions
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- How TiDB gives the company’s engineering team the confidence to scale effectively and serve 100 million global customers
Speaker
Leandro Morgado, Senior Database Reliability Engineer, Bolt
Leandro Morgado is a Senior Database Reliability Engineer at Bolt, where he ensures 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. Throughout his career, Leandro has held diverse roles in web hosting, MySQL support, and database consulting. He has previously worked at organisations such as Rackspace, Sun Microsystems/Oracle, and Pythian.