202205111310 Migrations are the only solution to tech debt

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Migrations are both essential and frustratingly frequent as your codebase ages and your business grows: most 202205131318 Software only supports one order of magnitude before becoming ineffective, so rapid growth makes them a way of life.

In fact, if your software survives an order of magnitude increase, it may have been over-designed in the first place. Add to that the simple fact that they are usually the only available avenue to make meaningful progress on technical debt¹ and it follows that we have to know how to do them well.

So how are we going to deal with these inevitabilities?

• 202304051001 Use a simple heuristic to guide gradual adoption
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