https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Paxos feed https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/03/uber-mysql-uptime-consensus/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Paxos <img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/03/uber-mysql-uptime-consensus/en/headerimage/consensus-1772309087126.jpeg"/><p>Uber redesigned its MySQL fleet using a consensus-driven architecture based on MySQL Group Replication, reducing cluster failover time from minutes to seconds. By moving leader election and failure detection into the database layer, Uber improved availability, simplified external orchestration, and strengthened consistency across thousands of production clusters.</p> <i>By Leela Kumili</i> Infrastructure Cloud Architecture Relational Databases MySQL Paxos Scalability Fault Tolerance Availability Database Replication Reliability Protocol Distributed Systems Clusters Development Architecture & Design DevOps news Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:15:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/03/uber-mysql-uptime-consensus/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Paxos Leela Kumili 2026-03-11T14:15:00Z /news/2026/03/uber-mysql-uptime-consensus/en