Case Study: Car Rental Gateway achieves scalable, high-performance database operations with Severalnines ClusterControl

Car Rental Gateway - Customer Case Study

Car Rental Gateway, a disruptive UK-based platform provider for the car rental industry, faced significant scaling and performance issues with their MySQL Galera Cluster. Handling over 100 million API requests daily across 150 AWS instances, their database was susceptible to network instability, which jeopardized data integrity and system performance. Their lead DevOps engineer, Gotthard Schlüter, explained they needed a more resilient distributed database technology and a system for robust cluster management and monitoring, leading them to seek a solution from Severalnines.

Severalnines provided its ClusterControl platform, which enabled Car Rental Gateway to deploy and manage a new MariaDB asynchronous replication cluster. The solution simplified the cluster setup, automated failover processes with custom scripts, and provided deep performance monitoring. The team was able to go live with the new eight-slave node cluster in just two months without external assistance. The implementation resulted in a more resilient, high-availability infrastructure that could automatically scale up or down based on application demands.

Car Rental Gateway

Gotthard Schlüter

Lead DevOps Engineer