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Zero-Downtime Database Migration Case Study

2599 words·Updated 2026-08-28·

#system-design#database#migrations#case-study

Primary References & Engineering Sources

·[[wiki/schema-evolution]]
·[[wiki/online-indexing]]
·[[wiki/database-migration-safety]]
·[[wiki/deployment-and-migration-safety]]
·[[wiki/parallel-monolith-read-drain]]
·[[wiki/database-locking-and-isolation]]
·[[wiki/keyset-pagination]]
·[[wiki/replication]]
·https://stripe.com/blog/online-migrations
·https://github.blog/2016-08-01-gh-ost-github-s-online-migration-tool-for-mysql/
·https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-createindex.html

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