Case Study: How Carvago launched its business idea in 3 months with Keboola
Key results
The challenge
Carvago, Europe's online used-car marketplace, needed to build a data platform capable of processing millions of car listings in real time across multiple countries. Compute demand was highly variable, swinging from an hour of processing one day to a thousand hours the next, so the company needed infrastructure that could scale up and down without heavy DevOps overhead.
The solution
Carvago built its data infrastructure on Keboola, using compute that scales instantly to handle spikes from one hour to a thousand hours. This let the team focus on building the business rather than managing infrastructure while ingesting and processing large volumes of listings and images daily.
“Keboola was the weapon of choice from the very beginning. One day we need 1 hour of computing, then the next 1,000 hours. We needed a solution that scales up and down.”
TTTomas TrnkaChief Data Officer at Carvago
The results, in context
Carvago turned its idea into a launched product in three months and grew into a company with $7M in annual revenue in that time. The platform processes 5.5 million car ads and 600,000 new photos daily across eight countries.