U.S. Postal Service Informed Visibility DataStax Cassandra Support

The U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that reaches every address in the nation: 160 million residences, businesses and Post Office Boxes.  With more than 34,000 retail locations, USPS has one of the world’s largest computer networks and delivers 48 percent of the world’s mail.

Informed Visibility Mail Tracking & Reporting is the USPS single source for near real-time letter and flat mail tracking information for businesses that are tracking domestic-bound barcoded letters, flats, bundles, handling units and containers.

RhinoSource was brought in by DataStax to analyze multiple large-scale DataStax Enterprise Cassandra and Solr Search clusters that house an enormous amount of data for this high-volume system, to ensure the DataStax clusters were healthy and could handle the significantly increased loads during the peak holiday season. RhinoSource made detailed recommendations to improve cluster performance and address issues that were identified.

RhinoSource also helped with plans to upgrade DataStax software at USPS and to migrate workloads to a new generation of server hardware with zero downtime, as well as helped load test production-like workloads on DataStax Astra DBaaS.