Case Study: go2 Media achieves 99.999% uptime and scalable, low-latency mobile publishing with MySQL Cluster

MySQL Cluster Powers Leading Mobile Media Publishing Platform

go2 Media operates the largest mobile entertainment guide, serving millions of users with dynamically rendered local and national content. Rapid audience growth (300% every six months), strict carrier SLAs (99.999% availability), tight mobile performance constraints and a need for richer, personalized session data forced the company to rethink session management and scale without driving up costs.

go2 replaced its NFS-based sessions with MySQL Cluster (combined with Memcached), using a shared‑nothing, multi‑master architecture on commodity servers to avoid SANs and expensive licenses. The new design delivered sub-second response times, 99.999% availability, peak throughput around 1,100 qps, and persistent user profiles for personalization—stabilizing the platform, enabling targeted ads and allowing efficient, on-demand scaling as traffic grows.

Go2 Media

Richard McCluskey

Senior Engineer