Upgrading GitHub.com to MySQL 8.0

GitHub uses MySQL to store vast amounts of relational data. This is the story of how we seamlessly upgraded our production fleet to MySQL 8.0.

By Sonic Mustang · March 16, 2026 · 1 min read

Source: The GitHub Blog

GitHub uses MySQL to store vast amounts of relational data. This is the story of how we seamlessly upgraded our production fleet to MySQL 8.0.