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WiseCompany

International money transfer and cross-border payments company

10 things

SnowflakeSoftware

loved

We use Snowflake as a data warehouse and it works wonderfully for us.

Wise's 2022 tech stack overview: data warehouse

medium.com ↗·2022-12-07Wrong?

StorybookSoftware

liked

We’ve adopted Storybook for visualising individual React components during development. Storybook pairs really well with Chromatic which captures snapshots after each change and can highlight the visual differences in the component.

Wise's 2025 tech stack update: testing web components

medium.com ↗·2025-02-12Wrong?

GitHub ActionsSoftware

recommended

We moved from Circle CI to GitHub Actions . That way we have full control over the infrastructure where our products are built. We use self-hosted runners in Kubernetes for running build commands and GitHub actions as control plane.

Wise moving CI from CircleCI to GitHub Actions

medium.com ↗·2022-12-07Wrong?

SpinnakerSoftware

recommended

we eventually settled on Spinnaker , being open source (with a great, active community ) and battle tested at bigger companies like Netflix and Airbnb.

Why Wise chose Spinnaker as its next deployment tool

medium.com ↗·2022-09-05Wrong?

JavaSoftware

uses

In the backend we are primarily using Java and Kotlin.

Wise's 2025 tech stack update: backend languages

medium.com ↗·2025-02-12Wrong?

KotlinSoftware

uses

In the backend we are primarily using Java and Kotlin.

Wise's 2025 tech stack update: backend languages

medium.com ↗·2025-02-12Wrong?

KubernetesSoftware

uses

Since 2018, Wise has relied on Kubernetes built with Terraform, JSONNET, and ConcourseCI to support service-mesh controls (Envoy), PCI-DSS compliance, and frictionless deployments.

Wise on its Kubernetes platform and the new Compute Runtime Platform

medium.com ↗·2025-02-12Wrong?

KafkaSoftware

uses

Kafka underpins most of our real-time data movement — whether it’s asynchronous messaging between services, log collection, or streaming updates for analytics.

Wise's 2025 tech stack update: data in motion

medium.com ↗·2025-02-12Wrong?

Next.jsSoftware Vercel

uses

Our web applications are built using CRAB (a Wise-specific abstraction on top of the popular Next.js framework) and comprises of 40 distinct apps

Wise's 2025 tech stack update: web apps

medium.com ↗·2025-02-12Wrong?

Spring BootSoftware

uses

Most of our over 600 backend services are running on JVM, use Spring Boot and written in Java or, sometimes, Kotlin.

Wise's 2022 tech stack overview: backend services

medium.com ↗·2022-12-07Wrong?

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