How to Design Zero-Downtime Database Migrations in High-Traffic Systems
Executing schema updates or data model modifications in low-traffic or staging environments is straightforward: brief maintenance windows and exclusive table locks are acceptable trade-offs. However, in production microservices processing thousands of read/write transactions per second, taking a database offline for schema updates is unacceptable. A single blocking table lock can exhaust application connection pools, trigger cascading system failures,and breach strict availability … Read more