MySQL joined the ARM ecosystem with 8.x release. This opened up a completely new vertical and provided a cost-effective alternative to users. With multiple cloud providers providing ARM instances more and more users/developers are getting interested in running MySQL on ARM. Let's explore what it means to run MySQL on ARM through enhancement done, what more could be optimized, patches already in pipelines, features that could benefit from more cores on ARM, state of ecosystem how it could be further improved, any special configurations to tune, performance, stability, notes on migration, do and don't, etc...