Case Study: Paidy achieves hyper-growth and scalable payments with Instaclustr Managed Cassandra and Kafka

Hyper-Growth with Open Source Cassandra and Kafka

Paidy, a leading online payment business in Japan, needed a highly performant, scalable infrastructure to support its rapid growth and real-time credit services while maintaining redundancy, high availability, and low latency. To avoid the complexity of self-managing its data layer, Paidy turned to Instaclustr and its managed platform and consulting services for Apache Cassandra and Apache Kafka.

Instaclustr helped Paidy migrate seamlessly from a self-hosted environment to a managed platform in 2017, enabling the engineering team to focus on product development instead of infrastructure management. With Instaclustr’s support, Paidy defined an event-driven architecture using Apache Kafka and continued scaling through hyper-growth, growing 200% since 2017 and reaching nearly 5 million users by the end of 2019.

Paidy

Ken Izumi

VP of Engineering