Case Study: Mirakl achieves cloud-native scalability and 70% OPEX reduction with Aiven for Apache Kafka

Mirakl goes cloud-native with Aiven

Mirakl, a fast‑growing eCommerce marketplace provider, was hampered by a fragile approach that created a separate monolith for each customer—causing downtime, heavy maintenance and costly, inflexible scaling. To become cloud‑native and avoid vendor lock, Mirakl turned to Aiven and adopted Aiven for Apache Kafka after finding self‑managed Kafka upgrades and operations too burdensome.

Aiven delivered a fully managed Apache Kafka service, handling upgrades and operations while Mirakl retained control of its data. The shift enabled a microservices architecture, freed developers to focus on product work, improved time‑to‑market, and delivered measurable impact: operating expenses fell by 70% and the platform now processes about 9,000 messages per second across ~100 servers.

Mirakl

Nagi Letaifa

VP of Engineering