“This is where your application is writing to both the old system and the new system simultaneously… essentially zero application code changes.”

Sahil Walia · Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers · Sahil Walia on Schema Changes and Data Migrations

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write to both the old database and the new database simultaneously during a migration (double-write)

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