Globo.com Deploys a Decentralized Architecture with Open Source Solution and Cut Costs by 65%
 
 

Globo.com Deploys a Decentralized Architecture with Open Source Solution and Cut Costs by 65%

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Globo.com is the latest business initiative of Organizações Globo, a Brazilian media group that owns the television networks Rede Globo, Globosat, and TV Globo Internacional, as well as radio broadcast, publishing, and production companies. Globo.com gathers and publishes content through the internet to Portuguese-speaking audiences worldwide.

 
 

 
 

Challenges

A word from Globo.com

  • “MySQL Enterprise Edition is a reliable, easy-to-use, scalable, light, and fast solution that gives our developers more autonomy and enables us to accelerate publication time frames for new Web sites—all at a low operating cost.” – Camila Dias, Project Database Coordinator, Globo.com

  • Restructure the multimedia portal’s Web site publication platform through the use of an open source solution to reduce costs
  • Reduce the cost of news and entertainment content publication projects without compromising the media company’s high quality standards
  • Speed time to market for new internet offerings to ensure the Portuguese Web portal’s competitiveness
  • Avoid potential portal response issues that sometimes occur with high volume on one site affects other sites

Solutions

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  • Deployed MySQL Enterprise Edition as Globo.com’s official Web database platform, ensuring stability and scalability of the newly created multimedia Web portal
  • Cut the cost of creating new sites by 65%, through savings in server and license purchases
  • Set up a copy of MySQL Workbench in DBA’s computers, ensuring autonomy for data modeling
  • Adopted a decentralized server architecture along with MySQL Enterprise Edition to eliminate performance issues when high volume on one site affected other sites in the previous centralized structure, something that required the IT team’s attention to balance network load
  • Gained the ability to accommodate large traffic spikes without compromising site performance, such as 9.8 million Web visits and 31.5 million page views in one day on the Globo Esporte site during the 2010 World Cup

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