Shotl Launches in yet another Italian City

Fully autonomous vehicles are finally starting to roll off the test tracks and onto the streets, and developers are realizing there’s more to providing transit services than just driving.

Ferran Carril explains how Shotl’s backend stays robust: isolating dependencies, prioritizing essentials, feature flags, autoscaling, and resource buffers to keep ETAs reliable under spikes.

In this post, we look at a few common reasons DRT systems don’t succeed, and how to avoid the pitfalls.