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This is impressive! I know others are questioning the "no downtime" bit, but that is why service level objectives exist -- because it really depends on the customer experience.

If you managed to have a cutover with no noticeable dip in business metrics (aka the users didn't notice) then I'd call that a no-downtime upgrade!

Very clever on the improvement over Lyft's methods. Thanks for the writeup. Now maybe someone can get it down from 3 seconds of pausing. :)




> then I'd call that a no-downtime upgrade!

It'd be really convenient for me, well not me but others, if we could tell our customers this. However, those of us running DBaaS do have to offer an actual no-downtime upgrade.




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