Why Open Sourcing our Database Tooling was a Smart Decision

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GitHub open-sources database tooling and reports concrete benefits: external contributors submit fixes and performance patches, community warns of MySQL 8.0 incompatibilities months ahead, a reader points to a specific code fix that is implemented, Ghost receives migration and performance improvements, Orchestrator gains design input leading to a SQLite Raft implementation and multiple PRs, and deployments keep running while the tooling broadens to many more real-world use cases.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:23Why Open Source
3. 0:47Ghost
4. 4:10Orchestrator
5. 6:05symbiotic relationships
6. 7:36community

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