“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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What was described
write to both the old database and the new database simultaneously during a migration (double-write)
Said nearby on the same subject
“I started establishing a newsletter, building a database. I guess you had a small database. I did to start. Very small. Very small. Yeah. But I guess like you say, when it's word of mouth, even if you've got 30 people on that database.”
“America.gov is designed… it just has a big old LLM search box… it stores no data, that it doesn't have user accounts… an LLM front end to, like, five million government databases.”
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