Case Study: Globo achieves high availability and scalable content development with MySQL Enterprise Edition

Globo ensures 99.999% uptime for Cartola FC with MySQL

Globo, the largest media group in Latin America, faced challenges in improving the performance and scalability of its web applications, such as its massive Cartola FC fantasy soccer game. The company needed to ensure constant uptime for millions of users, gain efficiency through a scalable infrastructure, and allow its developers to focus on content creation instead of database administration. To meet these goals, they turned to vendor MySQL and adopted MySQL Enterprise Edition.

By implementing MySQL Enterprise Edition, Globo ensured 99.999% availability for its applications and created a Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) offering. This solution provided elastic scalability to support millions of simultaneous users and offloaded administrative tasks from developers. The results included a highly available platform for over 12 million gamers and the ability for content creators to rapidly provision new database instances. MySQL provided the stable and resilient technology that supported Globo's transformation into a media technology company.

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