Case Study: Digital Asset Research achieves 99.99% uptime and 10x performance with Aiven for Apache Kafka

Digital Asset Research Boosts Resiliency and Reduces Downtime with Aiven

Digital Asset Research (DAR) is a high-growth financial services startup that provides real-time digital asset pricing and market insights to institutional clients. As its data volumes surged, DAR struggled with frequent outages, unpredictable egress costs, and an Apache Kafka setup that couldn’t reliably support 200+ million trades per day, putting service availability and SLAs at risk.

DAR migrated its streaming infrastructure to Aiven for Apache Kafka on AWS, completing the move in just three hours in self-service mode. With Aiven, DAR achieved 99.99% uptime, reduced Kafka costs by 25%, improved performance by 10x, and now supports 200 million trades per day — with peak trading of up to one billion per day — while operating tens of milliseconds behind real-time.

Digital Asset Research

Michael Schmidt

Director of Engineering