Case Study: Zerodha achieves scalable, cost-efficient trading operations with Cloud Native Computing Foundation

How cloud native is driving Zerodha, the world’s largest retail stock investment platform

Zerodha, a major Indian stock brokerage and the world's largest retail investment platform, faced a significant challenge in managing its complex, hybrid infrastructure. The company needed a centralized monitoring solution that could work across its heavily regulated, disparate systems while handling 8 million trades daily. To address this, they turned to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and adopted Prometheus for monitoring.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation's technologies provided the comprehensive solution Zerodha needed. By implementing Prometheus, migrating to Kubernetes, and adopting CNCF projects like NATS, Zerodha achieved a 50% reduction in compute instance costs, slashed environment deployment times from hours to minutes, and gained the modularity to quickly adapt to regulatory changes. This cloud native stack enabled them to efficiently handle unprecedented scale, processing over a billion trades in a single year.

Zerodha

Kailash Nadh

Chief Technology Officer