Data Base Migration - What Happened?

Taylor and jeremy's teams used staging or non production environments to try out different scenarios. These are systems that are used for testing, so you don't mess with anything live. They landed on a fix and put it in motion. This is what was estimated to take two to three hours. But there was another wrinkle. When we did the data base migration to lowed their data base table to grow larger, remove the cap. At first it didn't work. And so that was our, our moment of truth,. The team had to quickly but carefully consider their options which were both pretty awful. Either have base camp three go completely down, even worse than read only, or