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Somebody has never watched the whole company go down because some other team wrote a bad migration to the central db.


Which is a large reason why I don’t think dev teams should be managing DBs. It’s rare that anyone actually understands them, much less proper administration, configuration, tuning, etc.

If you have no other choice because you’re a tiny startup, then fine, but at least show the DB the respect it deserves, and read its documentation. You wouldn’t (I hope) write and run code when you had no idea how it worked, or what the potential ramifications were, so don’t do it for the rest of your tools.


Yes, I have watched that happen both in microservices and monoliths.




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