Programming
A database migration can work perfectly on your development machine and still make a production deployment awkward.
A database migration can work perfectly on your development machine and still make a production deployment awkward.
Smaller deployments are usually easier to trust, easier to roll back, and easier to debug. Once a release starts carrying too much change, the team spends more time managing risk than shipping value.
Environment management usually looks simple at first. Then defaults drift, secrets spread out, local setups stop matching production, and the whole thing becomes a source of avoidable mistakes.