CASE STUDY transaction status management. It could finally consolidate disparate processes across its financial solutions without a large infrastructure team to manually make the changes.
The centralised approach not only optimised performance but also facilitated easy scaling. Moniepoint swiftly adapted to growing transaction volumes across its diverse financial offerings.
Felix referenced that with loan processing, Confluent allowed for seamless tracking of transaction stages. This prevented bottlenecks and ensured timely customer updates. Similarly, for payment transactions, Confluent unified the status-check mechanism, simplifying the entire process and allowing for real-time adjustments.
“ This allowed us to scale, from processing, say hundreds of thousands of requests to millions of requests,” says Felix.
Handling of transactions
Before the implementation of a managed solution with Confluent, Moniepoint had to create a small, specialised system to manage transactions and notification. The initial use of Apache Kafka via a relational database functioned seamlessly under lighter traffic conditions. Eventually, a nonmanaged solution could not keep up with the company’ s scaling.
“ The initial implementation of this particular microservice was terrible,” says Felix.“ We built it on a relational database, and the simplicity was good because we could just have three tables. We were happy with the results until business blew up, and then everybody was on fire,” explains Felix.
Moniepoint saw issues with database locks, low throughput and scalability from the escalating transaction load. The meticulous process of maintaining a finite set of records led to unexpected database hang-ups. For Felix’ s team to build on top of Confluent, they were able to scale their infrastructure.
Felix shared that since Confluent deployment this year,“ We have never had any form of downtime with respect,” to processing millions of requests from its customers.
The impact extended beyond immediate problemsolving. Confluent offered a future-ready solution for Moniepoint’ s expanding user base. The ability to decouple critical services, coupled with reliable scaling, positioned Moniepoint as a leader in the Nigerian ecosystem, serving over 2 million businesses and aiming for further expansion across African markets.
The successful integration of Confluent Cloud became instrumental in ensuring the platform’ s reliability, scalability, and adaptability to experience financial happiness. p
MONIEPOINT EVENTUALLY
ADOPTED A HORIZONTAL SCALING SOLUTION WITH CONFLUENT.
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