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Migrations are part and parcel of software engineering and a skill to invest in, not special one-offs to avoid.
Drawn from what Simon Willison said
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Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette
migrations (e.g. replacing one service with a new one, or switching database engines, or whatever) are part and parcel of software engineering and are a skill that you should invest in and get good at, not avoid or treat as special one-offs.
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