How Microservices and a Key-Value Store Transformed India into a Cashless Society
summary
PhonePe claims $10B annual transaction value and handles ~20% of India’s UPI traffic while serving 30–40 million users; Aerospike stores the durable mailbox and auth tokens, running clusters that hit 50–100k QPS for mailbox and 100–200k QPS for authorization with 99th percentile at 1 ms for reads. Fraud checks do five lookups and return in ~15–20 ms; platform records ~30M writes and 40–45M reads per day. Architecture is microservices on Docker/Mesosphere with three live data stores: Aerospike, MySQL, HBase.
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- 0:00Start
- 0:01AEROSPIKE USER SUMMIT 2018
- 0:46Technology Infrastructure
- 1:05Why Aerospike not X, Y, Z
- 6:45Key Aerospike Services...
- 9:29Right or wrong?
- 13:02Challenges
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