Ryan Booz relives an older story:
For those of you that don’t know, those ER tools were really expensive (probably still are for the ones that exist) and only a few developers had access to the tool. They didn’t have a great DX either.
Aside from the lack of automation and ability of our developers to be more integrated into the process, there was always the one looming issue that we just couldn’t reconcile.
If Joe left and joined the circus (see, I got you there), we were stuck.
We knew this was a bottleneck for some time and we had tried multiple times to change the process. Our ability to iterate on new feature development went through one person and a set of 15-year-old scripts. It didn’t match our otherwise Agile process of front-end code and data analysis projects.
Read on for Ryan’s thoughts on database change management. Some of the tools mentioned work with multiple database platforms, whereas others are specific to Postgres.