Case Study: Swiss Post Achieves 5x Kafka Growth with Conduktor

Swiss Post scales Kafka 5x to 300+ applications with Conduktor

Swiss Post, a major transportation and logistics company, faced significant challenges in scaling its Kafka platform. As Kafka adoption grew to support critical, high-stakes operations like real-time sorting instructions, the platform became a "black box" with a lack of visibility, access bottlenecks for developers, and difficulties ensuring data governance and compliance. The platform team, led by Anke Raich, needed to support 5x more applications and 800+ users without increasing team size, all while mitigating risks and decommissioning legacy technology.

By implementing Conduktor's governance, RBAC, and self-service platform, Swiss Post centralized control and empowered its users. The solution provided granular access controls for compliance, self-service abilities for developer autonomy, and observability for data quality. As a result, Conduktor helped Swiss Post achieve a 5x growth in Kafka applications, empower over 800 internal users, save hundreds of thousands of dollars by decommissioning legacy systems, and build a foundation for AI-driven innovation, all with the same platform team.

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