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# [Our MySQL Master Was Slowly Dying and Nobody Wanted to Talk About It](https://ganya.hashnode.dev/our-mysql-master-was-slowly-dying-and-nobody-wanted-to-talk-about-it?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

A memory fragmentation rabbit hole, three staging disasters, and a production master swap that took less time than the meeting we had about it.

Jun 17 · 15 min read · ganya.hashnode.dev  
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🐧🧠Living below the abstraction layer

Hi, I'm Ganya J. Full stack engineer who somehow ended up deep in cloud infra too. Day job is Python, PHP & React. Free time is VPCs, POCs, and whatever rabbit hole I've fallen into that week. Writing it all down here before I forget.

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