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The swiss army knife of live data migrations

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2018-05-03 · latest 2025-03-09

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  1. …zero downtime data migration tool that powers the shard balancing tool at Shopify, also using TLA+: https://github.com/Shopify/ghostferry/blob/main/tlaplus/ghos... I also was able to find an concrrency bug before a single line of code was…
  2. …Ghostferry only supports MySQL and does structure, dump and binlog streaming at the same time. https://github.com/Shopify/ghostferry This one seems to only start streaming the binlog after the initial snapshot is imported which makes me…
  3. I've come across this repo which use TLA+ to validate data migrations. https://github.com/Shopify/ghostferry
    comment by unrequited · 2019-11-29 · in TLA+ model checking made symbolic
  4. Back when I worked for Shopify, I got a chance to work on something similar -- GhostFerry( https://github.com/shopify/ghostferry ), which allows for doing all sorts of migrations, that too between various databases. It was recently…
    comment by throwawaypls · 2018-05-03 · in GitHub's online schema migration for MySQL