"This distinction played a crucial role in our upgrade planning and execution strategy."
"Navigating Challenges in the MySQL Upgrade Journey"
"Finally, minimizing manual intervention during the upgrade process was crucial."
Whilst it may smell of ChatGPT/Claude, I think the answer is actually simpler.
Look at the authors of the blog, search LinkedIn. They are all based in India, mostly Bangalore.
It is therefore more likely to be Indian English.
To be absolutely clear, for absolute avoidance of doubt:
This is NOT intended a racist comment. Indians clearly speak English fluently. But the style and flow of English is different. Just like it is for US English, Australian English or any other English. I am not remotely saying one English is better than another !
If, like me, you have spent many hours on the phone to Bangalore call-centres, you will recognise many of the stylistic patterns present in the blog text.
Hate to generalize, but this has less to do with "Indian style" but rather adding a lot of fluff to make a problem appear more complex than it is, OR maybe someone set a template that you must write such and such sections, despite there not being relevant content. [ Half the sections from this article could be cut without losing anything ]
In this case, the _former_ really shouldn't have been the case. I for one would love to read a whole lot more about rollback planning, traffic shifting, which query patterns saw most improvements, hardware cost optimizations, if any, etc.