Database Migrations Without Downtime: Zero-Downtime Schema Changes

By Coder Secret | | Category: backend

Adding a NOT NULL column to a 50-million-row table should not take your app offline. Learn the expand-contract pattern, online DDL, backward-compatible migrations, and the exact steps for safe schema changes in production.

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