Case Study: Sazze achieves 100% Black Friday uptime and tripled transactions with ScaleArc

Sazze Smashes Black Friday Records, Enjoys Higher Uptime and Real-Time Visibility with ScaleArc

Sazze, an operator of fast-growing e-commerce sites including ShopLately, DealsPlus and Pocketly and the Black Friday Survival Guide app, struggled to scale its MySQL architecture as traffic and product lines grew. Changes to the database required extensive application modifications, performance and search rankings were suffering, and the upcoming Black Friday launch threatened to overwhelm their infrastructure without better scalability and visibility.

Sazze deployed ScaleArc for MySQL alongside Percona XtraDB/ Galera clustering to add transparent load balancing, caching and real-time analytics. The result: 100% uptime on Black Friday, over 600 million queries served with up to 80% cached (cached queries up to 60x faster), triple the prior year’s transactions and a three-month ROI, plus faster troubleshooting from real-time visibility.

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Craig Thayer

Vice President of Technology