Zero-Downtime Database Migrations: Lessons from GitLab's PostgreSQL Architecture

Zero-Downtime Database Migrations: Lessons from GitLab's PostgreSQL Architecture Running a standard schema migration on a small staging database is trivial: you run ALTER TABLE users ADD COLUMN bio text; and it finishes in 10 milliseconds. However, when your PostgreSQL database holds billions of rows, multi-terabyte tables, and thousands of... Weiterlesen: Zero-Downtime Database Migrations: Lessons from GitLab's PostgreSQL A…