How Moniepoint Transformed Financial Services for 2 Million Businesses in Africa with Confluent

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This post details how Moniepoint transformed its financial services by migrating from a legacy database system with replication lags to Confluent Cloud. It highlights the elimination of replication lags (up to 8-12 hours) by capturing transaction data changes efficiently, enabling near real-time data in read replicas. The post also describes the real-time migration of transaction data to a reporting data store without additional infrastructure costs. Furthermore, it explains how logging transactions on Confluent's managed streaming layer allowed for decoupling services, enabling independent consumption of events by financial solutions and resolving scalability issues, moving from hundreds of thousands to millions of requests. The implementation also addressed issues with database locks, low throughput, and scalability in a specialized microservice for transactions and notifications, achieving zero downtime for processing millions of requests.