Case Study: Picap achieves major cost savings and faster deployments with DigitalOcean

How ride-sharing company Picap saves money and development time with Managed Databases and App Platform

Picap, a leading ride-sharing and logistics company in Latin America, needed a more cost-effective and scalable cloud setup than AWS and Heroku could provide. They turned to DigitalOcean for Managed Databases and App Platform to support their fast-growing application and high traffic peaks.

DigitalOcean helped Picap migrate databases and applications, simplify deployments, and improve performance with Redis caching and Managed OpenSearch. The results were significant: monthly cloud costs dropped from $120,000 to $30,000, performance improved by 20–30%, downtime fell from about two hours to 18 minutes, and one DevOps engineer now manages around 70 apps on DigitalOcean.

Picap

Andres Murcia

Chief Technology Officer