Case Study: Slate achieves real-time investing at scale with Tinybird

Slate cuts API p99 latency to under 200ms with Tinybird

Slate, a B2B investment platform, faced a critical challenge where its Redis-based data layer could not handle the load of hundreds of millions of daily market-data events. During peak volatility, this caused high latency and outages, which severely limited product growth and forced the engineering team to scope ideas around infrastructure constraints rather than user needs. To solve this, Slate turned to vendor Tinybird for a managed data platform solution.

Tinybird provided a managed ClickHouse® database with a built-in API layer, enabling Slate to ingest massive data volumes and serve sub-second SQL APIs directly to their application. The results were transformative: API p99 latency dropped to under 200ms at peak, outages ceased, and costs were reduced. Most importantly, Tinybird’s solution freed Slate’s engineers from operational burdens, allowing them to confidently expand their product offerings and onboard new partners without infrastructure limitations.

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