Solving MySQL Scalability with Adaptive IO

May 27-29, 2026 • Computer History Museum, CaliforniaDate, time, and room will be announced soon.
MySQL gives you a ton of ways to tune it, but getting it just right for every type of infrastructure out there is challenging. That’s why we decided to overhaul some of the essential IO algorithms and build them to align for the cloud. We created an Adaptive IO framework that basically handles the heavy lifting for you, auto-adjusting in real-time as the underlying infrastructure changes. The best part? We’ve managed to scale MySQL through pure software magic—no extra hardware deployed. In this session, we’ll walk you through the hurdles we ran into and the cool ideas we used to make MySQL perform better than ever.
You can find all these optimizations built right into the Cloud SQL for MySQL - Enterprise Plus edition as part of the optimized writes feature.
Speaker

Krunal has been in the database industry for over 2 decades, with a primary specialization in the MySQL ecosystem. His contributions include numerous projects such as the development of temporary tablespaces, undo purge, …

