Our MySQL Master Was Slowly Dying and Nobody Wanted to Talk About It
A memory fragmentation rabbit hole, three staging disasters, and a production master swap that took less time than the meeting we had about it.
Jun 17, 202615 min read20

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A memory fragmentation rabbit hole, three staging disasters, and a production master swap that took less time than the meeting we had about it.

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