2013, parts of dw now life in Hadoop, after I have repurposed 40 decommissioned former database nodes into a test hadoop cluster and it scaled almost linearly.
There are a lot of replication chains now.
Primary servers are still special, because we have neither invented GTID nor parallel replication, yet.
Fleet size is a solid 4 digits.
And we are only 6. Against 200 devs trying to break stuff.
I vanish, giving SQL classes to devs, teaching …