76: Safe Ecto Migrations with David Bernheisel

We talk with host David Bernheisel about his Safe Ecto Migrations guide that was recently released. Intended as a resource for the community, it’s a 4-part series covering how Ecto migrations work, running migrations on production, provides a set of common-task recipes and strategies for migrating data in addition to DB structure. We discuss ideas around migrations like avoiding table locks on production, how to safely add DB check constraints, separating data migrations from structure changes, painful learning experiences and much more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/76 Elixir Community News https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx/pull/558 – Implement hooks and tokens for Nx https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1463239485685129216 – José Valim's explanation and excitement for the Nx PR https://twitter.com/chris_mccord/status/1462851686352015361 – Chris McCord teased a fully accessible Tailwind UI styled dropdown component along with something he's working on. https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1463605416861081602 – José shares what Philip Sampaio is doing with R&D towards precompiled NIFs https://twitter.com/philipsampaio/status/1463602239558270980 – Philip Sampaio is working on precompiled NIFs using Rustler https://www.empex.co/mtn – Empex Mountain Conference - Held in Salt Lake City, Utah on May 6th 2022 - CFP is open https://www.twitch.tv/josevalim – Advent of Code is getting started. Jose Valim will be live-coding solutions using Elixir on Twitch. Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected] Discussion Resources https://github.com/fly-apps/safe-ecto-migrations https://fly.io/phoenix-files/safe-ecto-migrations/ https://fly.io/phoenix-files/ https://elixirmix.com/68 – ElixirMix - Contributing to the Elixir Community with David Bernheisel & Cory Schmitt https://elixirmix.com/92 – ElixirMix - Managing Change with Ecto with David Bernheisel Guest Information https://twitter.com/bernheisel – on Twitter https://github.com/dbernheisel – on Github https://bernheisel.com/blog – Blog Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Email the show - [email protected] Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward Sponsored By:Fly.io: Fly.io is a great place to deploy your next Phoenix application! Check them out!