Planning, sequencing and deciding how to move a production database.
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PostgreSQL 14 stopped getting fixes on November 12, 2026. Teams still on it can pay to stay, upgrade to 17 or 18, or move the workloads that never fit Postgres to a document database. This is how we would decide.
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Most engineering teams wildly under- or overestimate what a large database migration actually takes.
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In this fifth and the final post in our guide, we will cover a sample database migration project plan and will discuss the key lessons learned based on our extensive experiences with 10GB to 100TB+ migrations.We highly recommend reading the previous posts in the series:Part 1 - Migration Readiness…
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If you haven't read the first three parts, read them here:Part 1 - Migration Readiness and Key Factors Influencing Timeline and RiskPart 2 - Downtime Strategy Options and Migration ToolsPart 3 - Migration Planning and Post-Migration Validation Strategy7.
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In this third part of our multi-post guide we will discuss migration planning and post-migration validation strategy.
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Migration performance and risks need to be carefully balanced through proper downtime strategy and optimal tool selection3.
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Migrating a production database supporting critical backend API services is one of the most challenging undertakings in software engineering.
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We recently visited Microsoft Reactor to talk about database migration paths, common pain points and best practices.
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Database migrations are a necessary evil in the life of any growing application or a company.
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MongoDB Atlas and Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB both speak the MongoDB API, but they behave very differently. Here are the strengths and pitfalls of Atlas, Cosmos DB RU and Cosmos DB vCore, and five rules for choosing between them.
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