[schleyfox]

Hi, one of the Airbnb engineers involved in this op here. Yeah... that does sound a lot like 3 years ago. The situation has gotten a lot better, especially with 5.6 and PIOPS. These days, things work pretty smoothly (even as the volume of traffic and data has scaled massively).

[stock_toaster]

Ah. That is great to hear! It was a special kind of hell having to deal with it with such regularity, at any and all hours (4am?! of course!). ;_;