This is to discuss how things have evolved with our use of MySQL 8.0 and where we stand now. - some discussion of things over COVID downscaling - moving everything to 8.0. Why it's hard to get all systems up to date and how to achieve that - automation-related changes we saw - new features that have been incrementally released - our view on them - stability of 8.0 - overall thoughts on where MySQL should/could go from here