Zooz Payment Orchestration Platform

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About Zooz

‍Zooz is a fintech innovator providing advanced payment orchestration solutions. Their platform streamlines and optimizes payment routing for global enterprises, while consolidating transaction data to enable smarter business decisions and improved customer experiences.

The Challenge

Zooz had been running its mission-critical application stack on DC/OS, including its Cassandra databases. However, as transaction volumes grew, operating Cassandra within DC/OS became increasingly complex and unreliable. Key challenges included:

• Operational overhead in scaling and maintaining Cassandra within DC/OS
• Need for stronger infrastructure security aligned with strict fintech compliance standards
• Requirement for zero downtime during database migration due to 24/7 transaction processing
• Future scalability—ensuring the platform could meet evolving customer and regulatory demands

Zooz needed a robust migration strategy to move Cassandra to AWS EC2, without risking service interruptions for its global customer base.

The Solution

Digitalis.io partnered with Zooz to design and execute a secure, zero-downtime Cassandra migration.

1. Infrastructure Assessment & Migration Blueprint
   Digitalis consultants worked closely with Zooz engineers to analyze the existing DC/OS environment and design a detailed migration strategy that minimized risk and aligned with fintech regulations.
2. Cloud-Ready Cassandra Deployment
   A new Cassandra cluster was deployed on AWS EC2 using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), ensuring the build was secure, repeatable, and fully auditable. All data storage and endpoints were encrypted to meet fintech-grade compliance standards.
3. Seamless Data Migration
   Live data replication was implemented to migrate both historical and continually incoming transactions—ensuring full data integrity and zero service disruption to end-users during the migration.
4. Operational Hardening with AxonOps
   The new Cassandra infrastructure was integrated with AxonOps for observability, automated repairs, backup & restore, and performance monitoring—giving Zooz’s engineering team full oversight and operational confidence.

The Outcome

The partnership between Digitalis.io and Zooz delivered measurable business value:

Zero downtime migration—24/7 payment processing continued uninterrupted throughout the project

Stronger security & compliance, with encryption and monitoring fully aligned to fintech regulatory requirements

Future-proof scalability—an AWS-native Cassandra environment that can scale to meet Zooz’s growing enterprise customer base

Operational efficiency—fully automated monitoring, backup, and repair workflows reduce engineering overhead

By modernizing its core data infrastructure, Zooz can now deliver payment orchestration at scale with the resilience, compliance, and performance demanded by global enterprises.

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"Digitalis professionals were mentoring and supporting us throughout a complex migration project. They did that with full devotion and were always available for us with quick solutions and guidelines, which eventually lead to the successful delivery of this project in a short time and in high quality."

‍Why Digitalis.io

Digitalis.io specializes in cloud-native data platforms, DevOps, and secure infrastructure transformations. Our team brings:

• Proven expertise in Cassandra at scale and distributed data migrations
• Hands-on partnership with customer engineering teams
• A focus on zero downtime, compliance, and long-term reliability

For Zooz, this meant a trusted partner who could deliver not only a safe migration, but also an operational foundation to support future growth.

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