Case Study: GoTo Financial achieves reliable, high-throughput, region-compliant Apache Kafka with Aiven

GoTo Financial goes far with Aiven

GoTo Financial, part of the Gojek ecosystem serving 270 million consumers and 11 million merchants, needed a managed, region-specific Apache Kafka solution on GCP’s Jakarta region to meet legal compliance and sustain massive, second-by-second throughput. With a lean engineering team that didn’t want to run Kafka in-house, GoTo Financial selected Aiven and its Aiven for Apache Kafka service to deliver a compliant, managed Kafka platform quickly.

Aiven enabled GoTo Financial to consolidate fragmented Kafka instances into a single, scalable system, migrate traffic by duplicating data and systems across regions, and orchestrate the environment with Kubernetes and Terraform. The result: fewer services and less infrastructure to manage, predictable costs, no observed downtime, instant user notifications for payments and no lost transactions even under poor connectivity, plus centralized reporting and role‑based access—outcomes GoTo Financial attributes directly to Aiven’s managed Kafka offering.

GoTo Financial

Kashyap Kopparam

Principal Engineer