The challenge
Türk Telekom is Türkiye’s leading communications and technology provider, serving 53.2 million subscribers across fixed, mobile and IT services. The company is currently undergoing an ambitious modernization program to expand beyond its traditional connectivity products, using cloud technologies and platforms to deliver new application modernization products and infrastructure to customers.
Türk Telekom’s digital transformation includes considerable investment in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Open Source Software (OSS) platforms.
The company leverages multiple open source products for their performance, cost efficiency and flexibility. Additionally, the Türk Telekom technology team has adopted new DevOps processes to enhance support for customers and applications using a microservices model.
Türk Telekom supports customers with managed IT infrastructure for their strategic business objectives. Türk Telekom’s managed services offer flexibility and scalability tailored to each organization's needs, ensuring 24/7 continuous support for both internal and external clients.
The solution
The modernization process was undertaken to build upon Türk Telekom’s existing robust database infrastructure, enhancing its performance and scalability to handle growing workloads with even greater efficiency. To meet the rapidly growing demands of digital transformation, Türk Telekom’s infrastructure underwent strategic enhancements that optimized operational costs, strengthened resilience, and ensured seamless business continuity for its customers, maintaining exceptional service quality. The modernization initiative streamlined operational costs, allowing Türk Telekom to allocate resources more strategically toward innovation and growth.
In response, Türk Telekom chose PostgreSQL to manage its increasing data volumes, performance expectations, and business continuity needs. PostgreSQL would support the company’s modernized applications and database infrastructure strategy, as well as eliminating software licensing costs. This freed up resources and budget that could be used in a more effective way. To manage this migration, the Türk Telekom team chose Percona as its key partner.
Working with Percona
Türk Telekom and Percona implemented Distribution for PostgreSQL including the components Patroni, HAProxy, pgbouncer, etcd and pgbackrest as a fundamental element of the company’s digital transformation. The new database infrastructure replaced older instances that ran on proprietary database software, reducing the costs associated with managing data. The team at Percona collaborated with Türk Telekom to further enhance Postgresql’s flexibility, enabling the removal of delays and maximizing performance, ensuring that Türk Telekom maintained its leadershio in delivering exceptional customer experiences. The savings generated were re-invested into additional digital transformation projects as the company expanded from providing only telecoms services to offering a wider range of technology solutions.
As part of the modernization process, Türk Telekom and Percona could deliver more resiliency for critical database instances through clustering. Based on the Percona team’s expertise in Patroni for PostgreSQL, Türk Telekom implemented an automatic failover strategy for its key clusters that would provide uninterrupted operations in the event of any instance of hardware failure that might take place in future. This high availability deployment guaranteed that the company could meet its service availability requirements with customers while also improving performance and optimizing database workloads.
PostgreSQL's scalability and performance-focused features has equipped us with a resilient and scalable infrastructure, capable of seamlessly accommodating growing customer demands. Working with Percona, we were able to deliver this element of our digital transformation project rapidly and smoothly, providing a more cost-effective and performant platform for our customers. The performance boost and optimized database workload we achieved with Percona and PostgreSQL led to a significantly improved user experience and a big increase in customer satisfaction.
Mehmet Fatih Bekin
Data Center, Infrastructure and Cloud Services Director at Türk Telekom
Türk Telekom turned to Percona for its PostgreSQL migration, moving from legacy proprietary databases and implementing a digital transformation strategy. In this successful transformation process, the 24/7 support and security services provided by Gantek and Percona played a significant role. The project delivered the following results:
✓ By migrating to Postgresql, Türk Telekom not only eliminated licensing costs but also redirected these resources towards groundbreaking digital transformation initiatives, solidifying its position as a leader in innovative technology solutions.
✓ The new database set-up decreased query times substantially, so customers got better performance for their applications and services
✓ Improved automatic failover mechanisms delivered high availability for uninterrupted operations in the event of hardware failures, guaranteeing service availability for customers.
About Türk Telekom
Formed by the merger of Türk Telekomünikasyon A.Ş., TT Mobil İletişim Hizmetleri A.Ş., and TTNET A.Ş in 2015, Türk Telekom provides seamless and continuous communication to 53,2 million subscribers. The company is Türkiye’s first integrated telecommunications operator’s nearly 37,000 employees and delivers 474,000 kilometers of fiber infrastructure services across the country’s 81 provinces. To better meet the rapidly changing communication and technology needs of customers, the company has launched new data centers, software-driven solutions and container technologies that facilitate application modernization.
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