“Would making this capability available help a meaningful part of the MySQL community build better applications or run better systems?”
Q1. MySQL has recently made available several features from the enterprise tier to the MySQL Community Edition. What is driving this direction?
The simple answer is that Community Edition needs to stay strong for the people who build, run, and depend on MySQL every day. That includes developers, DBAs, startups, large enterprises, and software vendors.
When we bring broadly useful capabilities into Community Edition, particularly in areas like observability, high availability, performance, and developer experience, the whole MySQL ecosystem benefits. Users get a better platform, and we get better feedback from real workloads at scale.
Recent examples include replication observability and Group Replication capabilities, …
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