There's a lot of people on HN, including myself, that have scaled MySQL beyond what we thought was possible. The hard part isn't solving the scaling problem, b

There's a lot of people on HN, including myself, that have scaled MySQL beyond what we thought was possible. The hard part isn't solving the scaling problem, but the uncomfortable conversations with leadership about how chunks of roadmap will be drastically delayed. Inevitably, leadership makes a decision to kick the can down the road, further exacerbating the problem.