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Scaling with common sense #2: Being future ready. - Zerodha Tech Blog

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Over the last year, owing to the unexpected rally in capital markets, Zerodha’s customer base has more than tripled, significantly increasing the number of concurrent users on our platforms along with the traffic and load they generate on numerous systems in the background. For context, in January 2020, we were handling 2+ million retail trades daily. In April 2020, it had risen to 7+ million. Today, it goes up to 12+ million. Our user base is now at 6+ million users, up from 2+ million last year. We never foresaw that our client base that grew slowly and predictably over ten years would triple in less than a year. Not that we ever attempted to do so either. However, when it did happen, we were able to adapt our software, infrastructure, and organisation with only a nominal impact on our stack and only a negligible increase in technology and infrastructure costs. This includes transitioning 1000+ of our employees to full time remote work pretty much overnight owing to the Covid lockdow

Scaling with common sense #2: Being future ready. - Zerodha Tech Blog Scaling with common sense #2: Being future ready. 28 Jul 2021 Kailash Nadh CTO Over the last year, owing to the unexpected rally in capital markets, Zerodha's customer base has more than tripled, significantly increasing the number of concurrent users on our platforms along with the traffic and load they generate on numerous systems in the background. For context, in January 2020, we were handling 2+ million retail trades daily. In April 2020, it had risen to 7+ million. Today, it goes up to 12+ million. Our user base is now

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