Codership has announced its latest customer, Latin American web giant MercadoLibre. With 115 million customers surfing the website at any time generating vast amounts of new data, MercadoLibre has become the largest private cloud in Latin America requiring high performance technology to keep its marketplace, payment and marketing platforms available for buyers and sellers.
Most of MercadoLibre’s IT architecture is virtualized; its cloud currently has more than 14 thousand instances running in over 85 regions, spread across 3 US datacenters. MercadoLibre needed to optimize database performance and work flows due to faster business growth, to support all its OpenStack cloud databases.
Both MercadoLibre’s IT infrastructure and staff faced intense demand of work when managing over eight thousand queries per second, to ensure availability and scalability. The company can´t afford any data loss or system crashes on its OpenStack services, because downtime could cause direct revenue losses.
The selection process of an open source solution proved Galera Cluster was the best fit to resolve their challenges. Mercado’s challenges were:
? Solution should be interoperable with OpenStack – an open infrastructure collaboration project - in order to be its DB backend
? Ability to scale without limits to support data growth on its private cloud
? Replace their existing database setup that consisted of MySQL and cluster software Heartbeat, as well as a high availability Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD)
Opting to go with Galera Cluster over PostgreSQL XL and MySQL Cluster, Galera enabled MercadoLibre to perform dynamic scaling with minimal downtime, providing 99.99999% availability at any time. The implementation took less than a month with ease of understanding, installing and configuring Galera Cluster.
“Codership’s Galera Cluster support is fantastic. It’s difficult to find a dedicated, highly talented support team like them. The product itself just works as we wanted it to with no surprises and downtime. Most importantly Galera scales and we use it as our standard database cluster for OpenStack and several internal core services.” said Max Tkach, Computer Engineer & Technical Leader of Cloud Services at MercadoLibre.
Tkach continued: “Personally, Codership has helped me to focus on my core work instead of spending extra time taking care of our virtual infrastructure or worrying about system downtime because is not an issue anymore!”
“For anyone in a similar situation regarding scalability and looking for an active-active schema which really works look no further than Codership and Galera.” added Dario Nievas, Technical Leader & member of the Cloud Services Team at MercadoLibre.
“We are proud MercadoLibre has chosen Codership. This validates the work we do in keeping some of the world’s largest businesses. Businesses grow by the second and a great user experience is vital if these businesses want to retain customers. This means efficient movement of data to provide an experience without any bugs or latency. We are excited by the challenge of maintaining one of the world’s biggest private clouds.” commented Sakari Keskitalo, Codership’s Chief Operating Officer.
