“We are a payment processor – so building a highly resilient platforms is a must. I was looking for something that would let us do multi-master replication between our two sites. We have to be able to switch processing between sites at a moment’s notice in the event of any system issue and come up at the other site. I wanted a commercial product because I didn’t want a homegrown solution we had to maintain. I needed my developers to be working on revenue producing projects – not maintaining or wasting time on a custom solution. I knew we would never be able to have the time to maintain something custom, and you are continually adding enhancements. I also really like the abstraction Continuent Clustering provided to the developers. Developers can treat the cluster as a single entity. They don’t need to manage where to read and write. And for our infrastructure team, having a slave promote to a master automatically if a master fails was nice additional resiliency. But mostly the solution let me build a site failover capability that works transparently to our clients. When there is a problem, we can re-route traffic immediately without having to worry about keeping data bases in sync. The issue for us isn’t performance. It is resiliency. This is critical to us delivering 99.999% availability to our customers. Our service offerings never go down (sound of me knocking on wood). Without Continuent Clustering, we couldn’t do what we do.”