Online migrations at scale

February 05, 2017

TLDR

I have always wondered about the different approaches that could be used to efficiently run migrations in a micro service environment. These 4 steps are simple but make a lot of sense.

The only part I would need more information (more research) about is really the MapReduce job on a database snapshot. Also the parallel jobs inserting on the production database would probably also have an impact on the production environment.

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