Case Study: Lyft achieves rapid product launches and multi‑million ride scalability with mLab

mLab Helps Lyft Navigate the Road from Startup to Ridesharing Juggernaut

Lyft partnered with mLab early on, choosing mLab’s Database-as-a-Service (cloud-hosted MongoDB) to re‑architect from Zimride into a mobile‑first ridesharing app and to address rapid product deployment, scaling to millions of rides, and expansion into new markets.

mLab provided managed MongoDB with battle‑tested backups, a slow‑query analyzer, live sharding migration with no downtime, and Private Environments for secure network peering; as a result Lyft launched in 24 cities in one day (April 24, 2014), hit one million rides in about a year, and now supports millions of rides per week while scaling seamlessly.

Lyft

Chris Lambert

Chief Technology Officer