Case Study: Spare achieves greater reliability and cost savings for city transit with Aiven

Spare builds city transportation systems with Aiven's help

Spare, a Vancouver-based microtransit platform founded in 2015, needed a more reliable relational data system to handle real-time requests and scale city-wide services. After unacceptable downtime with GCP Cloud SQL, Spare moved to PostgreSQL and Redis and selected Aiven—specifically Aiven for PostgreSQL—to get the fault tolerance, point-in-time recovery, and maintenance control their service required.

Aiven implemented managed PostgreSQL (and Redis) with PITR, scheduled maintenance control, built-in metrics, and flexible deployment options, delivering instant improvements in reliability and performance. The switch to Aiven cut maintenance-related downtime, made scaling and monitoring simple, and saved Spare the equivalent cost of two engineers, allowing the team to focus on their app and rapidly deploy city transport systems.

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Alexey Indeev

CTO and Co-Founder