Case Study: Blue Light Card achieves simpler MySQL automation and monitoring with Severalnines ClusterControl

Blue Light Card - Customer Case Study

Blue Light Card, a UK-based employee benefits provider for emergency services personnel, faced significant challenges managing its complex and rapidly growing MySQL database infrastructure. Their setup, characterized by master/slave replication and SQL proxies, was held together with custom scripts, creating multiple single points of failure. This required a very high skill level to manage, burdened a single expert, and threatened their need for 24/7/365 uptime and real-time data access. To address this, they turned to Severalnines for a solution.

By implementing Severalnines' ClusterControl, Blue Light Card automated its database management, eliminating many custom scripts and single points of failure. The platform provided automated failover, recovery, backups, and proxy management, allowing the entire IT team to monitor and administer the stack instead of relying on one specialist. The results were rapid, with a full deployment in under a month, a reduced workload preventing burnout, and new operational reporting that identified and resolved previously unknown problems, greatly improving efficiency and reliability.

Blue Light Card

David Hinchliffe

Head of IT