Database Migrations Need to Survive Two App Versions at Once
A database migration can work perfectly on your development machine and still make a production deployment awkward.
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Practical writing about software, systems, delivery, and things that behave strangely under pressure.
wade womersley – york based software engineer I write the way I work: direct, useful, and more interested in what holds up in production than what sounds clever on a slide.
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Putting the washing away could use a boss-battle soundtrack.
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Pagination looks simple until the underlying list changes between requests.
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I like being able to plug the same-shaped cable into more devices.
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Passkeys can make signing in feel pleasantly uneventful.
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I remain very easy to impress with something that glows in the dark.
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Starting the database container before the application container sounds like it should solve startup failures.
Programming
When a database query gets slow, adding an index is an appealingly concrete thing to do.
Programming
A timeout tells you that a response did not arrive in time.
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There is something disproportionately pleasing about a tiny jar of hotel breakfast jam.