Case Study: Discovery Channel

Discovery Networks Europe, a pan-European television broadcaster, engaged Fintech Consultants to undertake a detailed performance assessment and architecture review of its web-based new media channels.

Following continued promotional success, Discovery had experienced a dramatic uplift in web application traffic. Fintech Consultants was engaged to provide detailed performance tuning consultancy to help Discovery maximise the throughput of their existing platform and Java-based applications.

The technical environment comprised a number of well-known open source technologies, including Apache web server and Jakarta Tomcat running against a mySQL back-end.

Following the implementation of the performance tuning recommendations, Discovery Europe was able to scale its web-based applications several-fold to previously uncharted levels.