Hosting Open Source Relational Databases at Scale

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Azure hosts managed PostgreSQL, MariaDB and MySQL services that grow from an initial Windows/container-based platform to a Linux VM–backed Flexible Server GA in December 2021, removing the network proxy for no proxy direct connectivity, shifting storage and compute to native Azure disks and VMs, rearchitecting control plane into autoscaling microservices, and adding autonomous ops. Result: better latency and throughput, support across 50,000+ customers in 50+ regions/100+ countries, and compatibility with tools like PG bouncer.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:29Goals for OSS databases on Azure
3. 3:38Single-server model adoption
4. 7:50Single-server challenges
5. 11:40Evolution to flexible server
6. 16:10Flexible server improvements
7. 18:36Lessons learned and future

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