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Keeping the Community Connected

A passion for excellence

Community Connect Inc.
New York, New York

Community Connect Inc. (CCI) creates and builds interactive online communities targeting numerous ethnic groups. CCI's online communities offer end-users a new and dynamic medium to communicate and interact with those of similar backgrounds and interests.

CCI's AsianAvenue.com, BlackPlanet.com and MiGente.com service the Asian, African American, and Latino communities respectively. Among their target audiences, both AsianAvenue.com and BlackPlanet.com have more traffic than any other community sites on the Internet. This status is supported by recent Nielsen Netratings that ranked CCI the 11th most trafficked property by U.S. page views.

What Pythian has done for Community Connect Inc:

  • supported an infrastructure that faces peaks of over 100,000 simultaneous users, over 20 million named users, and approximately 200 million user requests per day (5000 peak requests per second).
  • leveraged Oracle's distributed-processing capabilities.
  • continuously monitored an Oracle environment that serves upwards of 10 million dynamically generated pages per day.
  • reduced employee burnout and improves morale by providing intervention-based support between 11 p.m. and 4 a.m.
  • performed quality-control review of new code prior to production.