Case Study: Canva achieves real-time user-facing analytics with Tinybird

Canva designs brilliant user experiences with Tinybird

Canva, the world’s all-in-one visual communication platform serving 165M+ monthly active users, needed a way to power user-facing analytics in real time without relying on Snowflake alone. Its warehouse-centric data stack was great for internal BI and ML, but it couldn’t meet the low-latency, high-concurrency demands of customer-facing experiences, so engineers had been building complex custom “speed layer” workflows across MySQL, DynamoDB, and other systems.

Canva chose Tinybird as its real-time analytics platform to simplify development, reduce overhead, and deliver sub-100 ms p99 APIs. With Tinybird, Canva cut compute costs by about 10x, built and validated a POC in 2 weeks instead of 4 months, achieved 25,000x faster end-to-end latency, and shipped 7 new user experiences in 12 months.

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Guy Needham

Staff Backend Engineer