Managed Database Service a Homerun for Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball's blogging site teams with Logicworks to create a high-availability architecture.
By the time the first player stepped into the batter's box for the official start of the 2008-2009 Major League Baseball season, MLB Advanced Media had already hit a home run of its own.
For the company, spring training meant rearchitecting the MLBlogs Network, the official affiliate blogging site for Major League Baseball. Up to the plate stepped Logicworks, but instead of a bat, the company brought a VMware-supported platform and managed database services.
“A 1 o’clock game between the Yankees and the Red Sox causes traffic to go through the roof in nanoseconds,” Choti said. “It's our job to predict traffic load, and we communicate to them and they right-size our platform.”
Logicworks went with a VMware Virtual Infrastructure cluster consisting of three VMware ESX servers and 12 Red Hat Linux virtual machines. The Linux machines are charged with running the Web application servers required by the social media platform MLBlogs uses, Six Apart's Movable Type.
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