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by geuis 356 days ago
Owww. The first or second paragraph of this made me cringe

"I had just finished what I thought was a clean migration: moving our entire database from our old setup to PostgreSQL with Supabase" ... on a Friday.

Never do prod deploys on a Friday unless you have at least 2 people available through the weekend to resolve issues.

The rest of this post isn't much better.

And come one. Don't do major changes to a prod db when critical team members have signed off for a weekend or holiday.

I'm actually quite happy OP posted their experiences. But it really needs to be a learning experience. We've all done something like this and I bet a lot of us old timers have posted similar stories.

2 comments

No. Never release/upgrade on a Friday. Had too many late night weekends when I should be happily drinking beer. Never release at eod Friday. Never.
It's hard to have 2 people available when you have a 2 people tech team. We were very early back then, MVP stage.