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Etsy has finished migrating its proprietary 1,000-shard MySQL infrastructure to Vitess after five years, 2,500 pull requests, and 6,000 query rewrites, eliminating a single point of failure while preserving its existing data layout through custom vindexes.

Oracle ends security patches for MySQL 8.0 on April 30, leaving 58 percent of monitored instances on an unsupported version with no fix path for new vulnerabilities.

A community revolt over commit drought, staff cuts, and opaque development is forcing Oracle to rethink its stewardship of the world's most deployed open source database.