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Upgrading GitHub.com to MySQL 8.0 (via) I love a good zero-downtime upgrade story, and this is a fine example of the genre. GitHub spent a year upgrading MySQL from 5.7 to 8 across 1200+ hosts, covering 300+ TB that was serving 5.5 million queries per second. The key technique was extremely carefully managed replication, plus tricks like leaving enough 5.7 replicas available to handle a rollback should one be needed. # 10th December 2023, 8:36 pm

Zero-downtime Redis upgrade discussion. GitHub have a short window of scheduled downtime in order to upgrade their Redis server. I asked in their comments if they’d considered trying to run the upgrade with no downtime at all using Redis replication, and Ryan Tomayko has posted some interesting replies. # 28th May 2010, 2:50 pm