mysql on ivomarino.comhttps://ivomarino.com/tags/mysql/Recent content in mysql on ivomarino.comHugo -- gohugo.ioen-USAll rights reserved - 2026Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000Scaling MySQL Beyond Kubernetes: When Backups Become The Blockerhttps://ivomarino.com/post/mysql-scaling-beyond-k8s/Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ivomarino.com/post/mysql-scaling-beyond-k8s/We ran MySQL in Kubernetes for years until the data scaled from GB to TB. Kubernetes wasn’t the problem—backups were. Kasten (the Kubernetes backup tool) was never designed for databases at our scale. Learn why we moved MySQL off Kubernetes and the backup solution we built to solve this infrastructure challenge.