OPINION
EARLY ADOPTER
David Stokes is a technology evangelist at Percona.
" The logic behind MySQL upgrades used to be simple. You want something near current, as a cutting-edge release of any server software can introduce incompatible changes to your data. But you can’t lag too far behind or you miss out on necessary bug fixes and new features. Today, many teams are choosing not to move at all. Why? Performance. MySQL 5.7 is significantly faster than MySQL 8.0. Early reports on MySQL 8.4 say this trend continues. Metrics collected by our Percona Monitoring and Management tool report that many systems still run on MySQL 5.7 nearly a year after reaching end of life.