New Way Now: Dojo is a payments powerhouse, delivering 60% faster transactions with Spanner

*Featured in this video:* Rob Howes, SVP of technology at Dojo *Executive summary:* With Google Cloud, Dojo is enabling millions of secure, reliable, and ultra-fast payment experiences daily, empowering businesses to serve more customers, cash up quicker, and thrive in today’s experience economy. As one of the UK’s leading payments technology players, Dojo is on a mission to transform how people trade, get paid, and manage their businesses — no matter the size. Using Spanner, Google Cloud’s fully managed relational database service, Dojo has achieved industry-leading transaction processing times at scale — processing millions of transactions a day with speeds up to 60% faster than the industry average. This speed and reliability translate to exceptional uptime for Dojo's customers, with the platform achieving 99.999% availability — exceeding the initial target of 99.99%. Dojo is also leveraging Google Cloud to embrace generative AI, using services like Looker and Google’s multimodal Gemini models to explore innovative use cases that offer more intuitive, natural ways to engage with payment data. *Challenge:* As a payments provider, Dojo’s focus is on delivering unparalleled payments experiences — not managing databases or infrastructure. In its pursuit of speed, reliability, and scalability, as well as the ability to work across multiple regions, Dojo was looking to adopt a fully managed database at the heart of its transaction processing that could also meet the highly-demanding and dynamic requirements of the payments industry. *Solution:* Dojo adopted Spanner as one of the primary databases powering its payments ecosystem. Spanner's ability to offer strongly consistent transactions, across regions, at virtually unlimited scale, enables Dojo to handle even the highest volume of transactions while upholding the security and speed guarantees of its payment data. Plus, as a fully managed service, Spanner allows Dojo’s team to work on solving the core problem sta