This was a great solution and execution under pressure. You might consider TiDB in the future when you have some breathing room to consider a new operational mo

This was a great solution and execution under pressure. You might consider TiDB in the future when you have some breathing room to consider a new operational model. It is MySQL compatible, open source, and can scale writes horizontally as traffic increases by just adding additional nodes. Disclaimer: I work at PingCAP, the creator of TiDB.