Case 01 · Fintech
Night Ledger
A payments platform that couldn't afford to lose a single cent — or a single event.
An event-driven payments ledger for a European fintech, processing card and transfer events through Kafka with exactly-once semantics, idempotent handlers and double-entry accounting in PostgreSQL.
- Throughput raised from 300 to 4,500 transactions/sec
- Reconciliation time cut from 6 hours to 11 minutes
- Zero lost events across 18 months in production