Key Takeaways Beyond a terabyte per table, MySQL hits an operational ceiling: week-long schema changes, single-threaded backups, and vertical-only write scaling. Sharding proxies just relocate the problem.

Key Takeaways Beyond a terabyte per table, MySQL hits an operational ceiling: week-long schema changes, single-threaded backups, and vertical-only write scaling. Sharding proxies just relocate the problem.