Company
Date Published
Author
Lotanna Nwose
Word count
598
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Piggyvest, a prominent Wealthtech company in Sub-Saharan Africa with over 4 million customers, has paid out more than $1 billion to users and is committed to helping Africans achieve financial goals through various products like Pocket and Patronize. The engineering team faced significant challenges in managing millions of events daily using Google Pubsub and Cloud Tasks, particularly with debugging and auditing webhook events, which led to inefficiencies and frequent issues with critical financial transactions. The introduction of Convoy to manage their event infrastructure significantly improved their debugging process, providing detailed event visibility and reducing bug resolution time by 80%, as engineers can now quickly locate and investigate issues using Convoy’s Payload Search with Typesense and other features. This transition has allowed the engineering team to focus more on product development, with the ease of setup and integration, detailed event search capabilities, and responsive technical support being highly appreciated.