Case Study: Clickability achieves 99.9% availability and scalable SaaS web content delivery with MySQL

Clickability Delivers Web Content Management SaaS Solution using MySQL

Clickability is a global leader in on-demand Web Content Management, delivering a SaaS platform for enterprise marketing teams and high-volume publishers (clients include Cisco, NetApp and CNN Interactive) that handles hundreds of millions of page views and serves content, ads, newsletters and social features. To deliver dramatic cost savings (50–90% vs. on-premise) while meeting strict enterprise SLAs, Clickability needed a highly scalable, reliable multi-tenant solution that could support large spikes in traffic and diverse customer needs.

By building on MySQL and an open-source stack, Clickability implemented a multi-tenant architecture with MySQL replication and Master‑Master setups across data centers to split reads/writes, scale rapidly, and eliminate single points of failure. The result is routinely exceeding a 99.9% availability SLA, supporting 500+ million ads and 10+ million emails per month, and managing more than 20 MySQL databases without a full‑time DBA.

Clickability

Jeff Freund

CTO and Co-founder