Case Study: a telematics company achieves global scale and high availability with Pythian and Google Cloud Spanner

Telematics Company scales to 2M connected devices in 8 weeks with Pythian

The telematics company, a SaaS platform leader, faced infrastructure constraints that threatened its growth. Its legacy Microsoft SQL Server database could not scale to handle the massive data influx from over two million connected devices, creating operational overhead and lacking multi-region resilience. The company partnered with vendor Pythian to migrate to Google Cloud Spanner.

Pythian engineered a migration of 380GB of critical registration data to Google Cloud Spanner within eight weeks, using Striim for real-time data synchronization to achieve zero downtime. They also implemented Terraform for automated backups and monitoring. This solution provided the telematics company with linear scaling and multi-region resilience, enabling it to support a 10x growth target and allowing internal teams to focus on product innovation instead of database management.