How Bolt Serves 100M Global Customers with Distributed SQL

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. **[REGISTER HERE](https://www.pingcap.com/event/how-bolt-serves-100m-global-customers-with-distributed-sql-apac-timezone/?utm_source=meetup&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=FY26Q3_APAC_Mkt_Webinar_Modernizing_MySQL_Bolt_Nov+27&utm_id=28198442-FY26Q3_APAC_Mkt_Webinar_Modernizing_MySQL_Bolt_Nov%252027)** 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: * Why Bolt shifted to a microservices architecture, and how this impacted their MySQL data infrastructure * How the company evaluated potential MySQL alternatives * Why Bolt chose TiDB, an open source distributed SQL database, to replace MySQL over other solutions * How TiDB gives the company’s engineering team the confidence to scale effectively and serve 100 million global customers **[REGISTER HERE](https://www.pingcap.com/event/how-bolt-serves-100m-global-customers-with-distributed-sql-apac-timezone/?utm_source=meetup&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=FY26Q3_APAC_Mkt_Webinar_Modernizing_MySQL_Bolt_Nov+27&utm_id=28198442-FY26Q3_APAC_Mkt_Webinar_Modernizing_MySQL_Bolt_Nov%252027)**