We are sharing how we tackled the migration to MySQL 8.0 — and some of the surprises we had in the process.

Facebook Engineering


Facebook’s open source database, MySQL, powers some of its most important workloads. We actively develop new features in MySQL to support our evolving requirements. Each new major version of MySQL requires significant time and effort to migrate. We’re sharing how we tackled our 8.0 migration project — and some of the surprises we discovered.

Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0