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Migration Danger Zones

  • Course
  • 16 Lessons

Migrations are hard, but all long lived systems will have to do them eventually. This course goes through the process of how to identify what the riskiest parts of your migration plan are and come into the process prepared.

Contents

Identifying Danger Zones

Different types of migrations
Could you list all the possible problems?
Pre-mortems and Post-mortems
What parts to do in groups -vs- yourself
States and IO
Bonus: The Basics of Using a PreMortem
Bonus: Kahneman on premortems to eliminate thinking biases

Scenario

Scenario: Zattos' two order DBs
Worksheet: Danger Zones
Exercise discussion part 1
Filtering relevant risks
Comprehensive lists or fact finding?
Finding conflicting assumptions
Exercise discussion part 2

Improving the migration plan

Marianne's digression about DB migrations
Eliminating risks