The AWS Developers Podcast

From Monolith to Microservices: How Zilch Scaled a Modern Payment Platform


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Join us for an insightful conversation with Mike Davis, Engineering Manager, and Rob Nelson, VP of Engineering at Zilch, a leading UK-based buy now pay later platform. Discover how this cloud fintech scaled from a monolithic architecture to a sophisticated microservices ecosystem serving 5 million customers. Learn about their journey migrating from MSSQL to Aurora, their innovative use of AWS services including EKS, SNS/SQS for event-driven architecture, and API Gateway for WebSocket connections. The discussion explores their unique implementation of push notifications, in-app messaging, and how they leverage generative AI for merchant discovery. Get a behind-the-scenes look at their fraud detection system using Kinesis and Flink, and hear about their upcoming physical card launch.

With Robert Nelson, VP of Engineering, Zilch ; With Mike Davis, Engineering Manager, Zilch

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