Is It Possible to Build a Low-Latency, Scalable Groww Clone App on a Lean Infra Budget?
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From my experience, yes you can build a low-latency, scalable Groww clone even with a tight infra budget. In our groww clone app development project with Beleaf Technologies, we started with a lean MVP: a modular backend in Node.js/Go, PostgreSQL for core ledgers, Redis for caching, and a simple Kubernetes cluster with autoscaling instead of over-provisioning. Beleaf helped us design event-driven services for market data and orders so we only scale the hot paths. We used managed services selectively (DB, cache) and kept the rest containerized to control costs. Latency stayed low because critical components ran on dedicated nodes with tuned connection pools. For a startup budget, this hybrid approach gave us scalability without a massive monthly bill.