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 show@thinkingelixir.com

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 - show@thinkingelixir.com
Mark Ericksen - @brainlid
David Bernheisel - @bernheisel
Cade Ward - @cadebward

76: Safe Ecto Migrations with David Bernheisel

Thinking Elixir Podcast

76: Safe Ecto Migrations with David Bernheisel