# Inside Hyperdrive: How we solved a rare Hyperdrive MySQL caching bug

> **Key Architectural Takeaway:** Hyperdrive support for MySQL is now generally available (GA).

**Published:** 2026-10-14T13:00:00+00:00 
**Source:** Cloudflare Technical Blog 
**Category:** software-engineering 
**Canonical URL:** https://fosswire.org/news/inside-hyperdrive-how-we-solved-a-rare-hyperdrive-mysql-cach.html 

## Executive Summary
Hyperdrive support for MySQL is now generally available (GA). Hyperdrive , Cloudflare’s database connection pooler for Workers, initially only supported Postgres. Since we announced the beta for MySQL protocol support last year, we have been working on making our MySQL handling as reliable as our Postgres support. We’ve learned some things from building and running a MySQL connection pooler on Cloudflare’s network.

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