Sportradar uses Pythian to perform a database health check and accelerate improvements

1 min read
May 20, 2022

Overview

Sportradar

Industries

Sports

Locations:
HQ in St. Gallen, Switzerland

At Sportradar, a relatively small team of in-house engineers and developers run hundreds of databases. An outage would not only impact the internal teams at Sportradar, but also millions of customers who rely on their data. Sportradar contacted Pythian to get a health check of their systems.

What we did

The solution was a report that gave Sportradar recommendations on how to approach an upgrade from version 5.6 to 5.7 or 5.8. The report included guidance around configuration settings, as well as recommendations on how and when to upgrade.

 
 

Technologies used

 
 
  • Percona
  • MySQL

Key Outcomes

Realistic expectations for risk management.
Pythian gave Sportradar the confidence, direction, and ability to do things in an informed way. Now, Sportradar has a complete backlog, they know the scope of the work, and they have concrete next steps.

Educated MySQL upgrade recommendation.
Pythian presented findings that gave Sportradar recommendations on how to approach an upgrade from MySQL version 5.6 to 5.7 or 5.8. The report included guidance around configuration settings, as well as recommendations on how and when to upgrade. Now, Sportradar is ready to work through the recommendations from Pythian, and they’re well-positioned to do so successfully.

Confident about future solutions.
Due to Sportradar’s popularity, they’ve grown exponentially, partially because of acquisitions. They need to be able to absorb future companies quickly and seamlessly. Pythian educated Sportradar about viable solutions on other platforms and explained their future options.

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