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Natalia Tepluhina (GitLab)

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How to Drive a Big Migration Across Multiple Systems?

Migrations across multiple systems and multiple teams. What kind of stratogies do ye use for driving a big migration? We start with remoe the parts that are deprecated in a new version, and adjust them to be worked into both versions. For apollo cline, for example, ther're a cash uf dates, and they need to be immutable. So this is first thing. Next steps are usually you plan what should be done first. Also for such things as like major migration chanes, we introduce feature flagsUsually if something goes really, really wrong, which is like crawl down a, a feature flag off. It works though.

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