Case Study: TV2 achieves lower risk and better cost control with Aiven

TV2 Norway Enhances Development Environment while Lowering Risks and Controlling Costs

TV2 Norway, the country’s largest commercial television station and provider of TV2 Play, needed to support fast-growing streaming operations while reducing the complexity, cost, and risk of its fragmented data infrastructure. The company’s engineers were using multiple open-source tools across teams, creating siloed systems, high cognitive load, and limited oversight, especially around Apache Kafka® and other data services.

TV2 chose the Aiven Platform to build a standardized internal development platform across clouds, using managed open source services including Apache Kafka®, Cassandra®, PostgreSQL®, OpenSearch®, MirrorMaker 2, and Kafka Connect. With Aiven, TV2 gained a single control panel, one bill, and one SLA, while improving developer productivity, enabling self-service environments for 35 teams and about 150 developers, and maintaining 99.99% uptime. The result was better cost control, reduced risk, and more time for innovation rather than infrastructure management.

TV2

Thomas Aalèn

Head of Internal Development Platform