Case Study: Shutterfly achieves scalable cloud database rollout with Pythian

Pythian Helps Shutterfly Roll Out a Scalable Database in the Cloud

Shutterfly, the digital consumer goods company behind billions of photo products and the acquired ThisLife app, needed a scalable cloud database backend that could be launched quickly without disrupting customers. It turned to Pythian for help with cloud database replication, sharding, monitoring, and tooling, using MySQL on AWS as the core platform.

Pythian built, tested, and migrated a sharded MySQL environment with better operational visibility, backup and recovery, scalability, and fault tolerance, then provided post-migration support. The result was a successful launch with no downtime, the ability to handle traffic spikes and marketing bursts, and a significant increase in application stability and flexibility.

Shutterfly

Charles Howard

DBA manager of Internet Operations