Case Study: Wolt achieves scalable, reliable data infrastructure and cost savings with Aiven

Aiven delivers for Wolt’s business

Wolt is a technology-driven local commerce company operating in 23 countries and 250+ cities that needed a reliable, scalable messaging and data pipeline to support rapid growth. Their Redis-based setup lacked delivery semantics, persistence and easy data ingestion to a warehouse, so Wolt chose Aiven — primarily Aiven for Apache Kafka® (and Aiven for OpenSearch® for app search) — to provide a managed, production-ready platform.

Aiven delivered a fully managed Apache Kafka service with rich tooling, easy scalability and a 99.99% uptime guarantee, allowing Wolt to use Kafka as both a message bus and a data ingestion pipeline. The result: Aiven hosts all of Wolt’s Kafka instances, operational overhead dropped (only ~5 people work on staging while ~100 focus on platform development), major cost savings and faster expansion — enabling Wolt to scale its platform to millions of users and tens of thousands of courier and retail partners.

Wolt

Mikko Peltola

Head of Infrastructure