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Use cases
Built for products
that cannot lag.
Payments, logistics, multiplayer, IoT and AI agents all share one problem: events that must arrive once, in order, right now. Here is how teams use Driftwire to solve it.
01
Where it fits
Six patterns we see every week
p95 31 ms
Payments
Ledger events that never double-post
Idempotent publishes and per-account ordering keep balances right through retries and failovers.
Read the story
p95 44 ms
Logistics
Live tracking across a whole fleet
Millions of GPS pings fan out to dispatch, customer apps and the data warehouse at once.
Read the story
p95 22 ms
Collaboration
Presence and edits for every cursor
Document changes and presence fan out over WebSockets with ordering per document.
Read the story
p95 19 ms
Multiplayer
Match state that stays in sync
Regional edges keep round trips short; replay rebuilds a match for anti-cheat review.
p95 52 ms
IoT telemetry
Sensor data without the backlog
Batch ingest absorbs bursts from devices while alerts read the newest readings first.
p95 36 ms
AI agents
Tool calls with a full audit trail
Every agent step is an event: traceable, replayable and easy to evaluate later.
02
Payments
A ledger that survives every retry
Velmont moves card authorisations, captures and refunds through Driftwire. Idempotency keys and per-account ordering mean a retried request can never post twice.
Per-account ordering across 12 partitions
Exactly-once delivery into the ledger service
Replay used to backfill a new fraud model
Our reconciliation job used to find a handful of duplicates every night. Since the move it has found none, and we deleted the job.
JR
Joaquín Reyes
Head of payments infra, Velmont
0
Duplicate postings since launch
31 ms
p95 publish to ledger ack
03
Logistics
Forty thousand vans, one live map
Brightfold streams GPS and scan events from every vehicle. Dispatch, the customer app and the warehouse each read the same stream at their own speed.
1.8 billion location events a month
Three consumers with independent cursors
Regional edges in fra, iad and sin
We stopped arguing about which system was the source of truth. There is one stream, and everyone reads from it.
PR
Priya Raman
Platform lead, Brightfold
1.8B
Events per month
−41%
Infra cost vs. self-run Kafka
04
Collaboration
Cursors that feel local everywhere
Kestrin builds a multiplayer whiteboard. Every stroke and presence ping is an event, ordered per board and fanned out over WebSockets.
Ordering per board, not per server
Presence updates in under 25 ms
Replay powers version history
Version history used to be its own system. Now it is a replay window with a nice UI on top.
SO
Sam Okoye
CTO, Kestrin
22 ms
p95 stroke to remote cursor
90 days
Board history from replay
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