Database ScalingDoes Your Black Friday Database Scaling Strategy Involve Duct Tape and Prayers?
It Might Be Time to Rethink How You Scale MySQL for Peak Demand
As Black Friday and Cyber Monday approach, many engineering teams prepare for their annual database performance stress test. The surging traffic, unpredictable spikes, and sleepless nights spent watching database dashboards. The typical response is familiar: add more replicas, increase compute resources, and pray everything holds.
But this approach to database scaling is reactive, costly, and fragile. What begins as a quick fix be
Tanmay Sinha2025-10-21·4 min read
