Description
Bolt grew 400% post-pandemic to become Europe’s fastest-growing mobility company, serving 100 million users across 500+ cities. But their MySQL infrastructure couldn’t keep up. Adding a single column to a loaded 1TB table took up to a week, and managing hundreds of schemas across thousands of microservices had become an operational nightmare.
In this session, Bolt’s database reliability team shares how they evaluated alternatives, why TiDB’s MySQL compatibility and horizontal scalability won the decision, and how they migrated their most critical workloads to seven TiDB clusters on AWS while achieving 3:1 data compression and five-nines reliability in production.
Speaker

Leandro Morgado
Senior Database Reliability Engineer, Bolt