Case Study: Bitvavo achieves real-time data streaming and stronger governance with Confluent

Bitvavo Banks on Confluent to Boost Its Real-Time Data Streaming and Realize Robust Data Governance

Bitvavo, a fast-growing European cryptocurrency exchange, needed a way to scale real-time data processing and strengthen governance as trading volumes, user demand, and regulatory requirements increased. Its self-managed Apache Kafka setup was becoming difficult to maintain, especially for encryption, compliance, and handling large data streams efficiently. Confluent’s fully managed Kafka platform helped Bitvavo simplify its infrastructure and support its expanding data needs.

With Confluent, Bitvavo implemented event-driven architecture, real-time streaming, and stronger data governance using features like Schema Registry and stream processing. The result was faster market data delivery—cutting trading chart updates from up to 3 minutes to seconds—plus improved security, compliance with GDPR and DORA, and automatic scaling during demand spikes. Confluent also helped Bitvavo handle millions of transactions per second more reliably and efficiently.

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Marcos Maia

Senior Staff Engineer