Case Study: Life360 achieves real-time family safety with StarTree Pinot

Life360 powers real-time location tracking in under 90ms with StarTree

Life360, a family safety platform with over 88 million users, faced the challenge of scaling its real-time location tracking service to handle 85 billion daily location records. They needed an analytics solution that could provide query responses in under 90 milliseconds while upholding strict privacy standards and scaling cost-effectively. To meet this challenge, Life360 chose the managed Apache Pinot service from vendor StarTree.

The solution implemented by StarTree provided Life360 with a managed cloud platform that included enterprise features like tiered storage and strong security. As a result, Life360 achieved its sub-second query response SLA and was able to ingest data for over 80 million users within a week of a rapid proof of concept. The vendor StarTree enabled real-time visibility and significant platform growth while helping Life360 manage storage costs efficiently.

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