Case Study: AIA achieves greater database scalability and high availability with Severalnines ClusterControl

AIA eliminates split-brain and boosts database performance with Severalnines

AIA, a South African e-commerce company, faced challenges scaling its database infrastructure to support rapid growth. After moving from a Master-Slave MySQL setup to a Galera Cluster, the operations team encountered a major split-brain incident that caused a loss of resources and revenue. They lacked insight into their mission-critical database cluster and realized they needed a management tool. This led them to seek a solution from vendor Severalnines.

Severalnines provided its ClusterControl product to manage the Galera Cluster. The solution automated configuration changes, node recovery, and updates, integrating with the company's existing Puppet automation. The result was the elimination of split-brain scenarios and a tremendous increase in performance. The ops team gained real-time insight to manage bad queries and proactively work on their database schema, preventing revenue loss and delayed business processes.

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