Tesouro scales payments innovationWith managed open source solutions
With NetApp Instaclustr, Tesouro achieves unmatched reliability, streamlined scalability, and cost-effective innovation in the dynamic payments industry.
Industry
- Financial services
Technologies
- Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, PostgreSQL®
Challenges
- Managing scalability with a lean DevOps team
- Ensuring 24/7 uptime for mission-critical databases
- Minimizing operational overhead while meeting compliance
- 75% reduction in storage costs
- Zero downtime during migrations
- 240+ hours saved annually in management time
Scaling mission-critical Infrastructure without downtime
Tesouro needed to enhance their cloud-based open source data infrastructure while addressing critical challenges, including:
Limited resources
A small DevOps team meant manual workflows and heavy maintenance needed to be minimized.
Database resilience
Ensuring their production transaction Cassandra database achieved 100% uptime under growing demand.
Compliance
Navigating PCI and SOC 2 requirements to meet industry standards without overwhelming internal teams.
"Our ability to elastically scale the system determines our legitimacy in the space and our ability to keep operating."
— Ben Moody, DevOps Lead, Tesouro
Unlocking scalability and efficiency with Instaclustr
Tesouro partnered with NetApp Instaclustr to fully manage their open-source infrastructure, starting with Apache Cassandra. The relationship soon expanded to include managed PostgreSQL and Apache Kafka for streamlined backend processing and data pipelines.
Proactive support
Instaclustr’s 24/7 monitoring identified and resolved issues before they escalated. For example, when a microservice faced repeated timeout failures, Instaclustr pinpointed a misconfigured PostgreSQL connection pool and resolved the issue in under 24 hours.
Optimized storage strategies
By reworking data retention and automating archiving, the Instaclustr team helped Tesouro reduce its storage footprint by 75%. This boosted database query performance and slashed costs.
Operational expertise
Instaclustr handled time-consuming tasks like updates and debugging, freeing over 240 hours annually for Tesouro’s DevOps Team.
“Instaclustr didn’t just solve our problems; they empowered us to innovate with confidence. We now have the freedom to focus on what we do best.”
Boosting efficiency and freeing up resources
"By automating database management with Instaclustr, we’ve avoided hiring additional support staff and shifted our focus to long-term growth and delivering better services."
