Amit Patel, Principal Architect at Comcast, discussed his team's evolution in handling modern workloads. The company has faced challenges with legacy solutions, such as replication lag and having a unified view of the cluster. To address these issues, they have adopted distributed SQL to support scalability, consistency, resiliency, cloud-native architecture, and security. Amit emphasized the importance of fault tolerance, linear scalability, geo-distribution capabilities, and SQL support for modernizing applications without causing a headache. The team has taken both refactoring and re-platform approaches to migrate workloads to distributed SQL. They prioritize open-source solutions, containerized solutions like Kubernetes, and automation tools to aid in database selection and migration. Amit also highlighted the need for best practices in introducing new technology, breaking down the process into fit assessment, migration assessment, and execution steps. The company aims to adopt DBaaS and a platform migrator tool to further ease adoption of distributed SQL.