database-migrations

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3 Articles

A migration that takes milliseconds on your laptop can freeze production. Here's how locks cause outages, how expand and contract keeps old ...

Oct 29, 2026

16 min

A migration that finishes in milliseconds on your laptop can lock a production table for an hour. This guide shows how to avoid that: the ex...

Oct 14, 2026

7 min

Every deployment is a gamble. You're swapping out a running system mid-flight. This post walks through the four main zero-downtime deploymen...

Jul 29, 2026

8 min