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Items tagged migrations, stripe in Nov, 2023

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Stripe: Online migrations at scale (via) This 2017 blog entry from Jacqueline Xu at Stripe provides a very clear description of the “dual writes” pattern for applying complex data migrations without downtime: dual write to new and old tables, update the read paths, update the write paths and finally remove the now obsolete data—illustrated with an example of upgrading customers from having a single to multiple subscriptions.

# 5th November 2023, 4:06 pm / databases, migrations, zero-downtime, stripe

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