Upgrading to MySQL 8.0 without stopping GitHub.com: a video showing the entire project that took over a year.

This is the story of the upgrade of over 1200 MySQL hosts to 8.0 without stopping GitHub.com's service, and how the planning, testing, and upgrade, which took over a year, was done, as told by GitHub's Principal Software Engineer tells the story. Enjoy the extras at the end.

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