Database schema migrations are a major source of outages and engineering pain, as illustrated by incidents at a major Italian bank, Linear, and GitHub. Common pitfalls include difficulty testing outside production, lengthy migration times, lack of reliable rollback, and cascading impact on integrations. Standard mitigation
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What is schema migration?Typical migration problemsTypical mitigation risk tacticsState-of-the-art mitigation tacticsWhy is even state-of-the-art not good enough, and how can we address it?Quesma schema migration visionResources usedSort: