How Forter built a fraud decision engine that responds before you click 'buy'

Forter, initially a fraud prevention company, has evolved into a sophisticated trust platform that leverages identity intelligence to make real-time trust decisions across the entire customer journey. Handling over $350 billion in transactions annually across 180 countries, Forter faced challenges with its previous database architecture, which led to inconsistent latency and operational complexity. To address these issues, Forter transitioned to Aerospike's Hybrid Memory Architecture, resulting in a 10x improvement in latency, a 40% reduction in costs, and a consolidation from 178 servers to 50. This migration enabled Forter to provide predictable performance without caching layers, enhancing the customer checkout experience. Additionally, Forter restructured its global architecture from a dual-region setup to a hub-and-spoke model, ensuring consistent decision-making and data availability across regions without duplicating core logic. This shift not only improved system reliability and reduced operational overhead but also allowed Forter to make strategic business decisions based on reliable infrastructure economics.