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zero-downtime-migration-planner
Plans blue-green rollouts, canary deployments, and expand-and-contract schema migrations with zero downtime.
Overview
Purpose
Formulate zero-downtime deployment and database migration blueprints (Expand/Contract pattern, Parallel Run, Blue-Green, Canary) allowing continuous availability during breaking changes.
When to Use
- Renaming or splitting database columns in high-traffic tables.
- Replacing a core microservice or authentication provider without maintenance windows.
- Executing major database engine upgrades with replication cutovers.
What to Analyze
- Expand & Contract Phases:
- Phase 1 (Expand): Add new nullable column/table alongside old one.
- Phase 2 (Dual Write): App writes to both old and new columns, reads from old.
- Phase 3 (Backfill): Background job migrates historical data.
- Phase 4 (Read Switch): App switches reads to new column.
- Phase 5 (Contract): Stop writing to old column and drop it.
- Backward Compatibility: Ensure running v1 and v2 app versions can simultaneously operate on the database.
- Traffic Splitting & Canary Gates: 1% $ ightarrow$ 5% $ ightarrow$ 25% $ ightarrow$ 100% traffic shifting with automated rollback triggers.
- Locking & DDL Safety: Avoiding exclusive table locks (
ACCESS EXCLUSIVE) during migration runs.
Output Format
- Multi-Phase Deployment Roadmap: Numbered phases with release gates.
- Database DDL / Migration Scripts: Safe non-blocking migration code.
- Rollback Procedure per Phase: How to abort at any phase without data loss.
Avoid
- Renaming a database column directly in a single deployment (causes instant 500 errors).
- Running large table updates in a single blocking transaction.
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name: zero-downtime-migration-planner description: Plans blue-green rollouts, canary deployments, and expand-and-contract schema migrations with zero downtime.
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--- name: zero-downtime-migration-planner description: Plans blue-green rollouts, canary deployments, and expand-and-contract schema migrations with zero downtime. --- ## Purpose Formulate zero-downtime deployment and database migration blueprints (Expand/Contract pattern, Parallel Run, Blue-Green, Canary) allowing continuous availability during breaking changes. ## When to Use - Renaming or splitting database columns in high-traffic tables. - Replacing a core microservice or authentication provider without maintenance windows. - Executing major database engine upgrades with replication cutovers. ## What to Analyze 1. **Expand & Contract Phases**: - *Phase 1 (Expand)*: Add new nullable column/table alongside old one. - *Phase 2 (Dual Write)*: App writes to both old and new columns, reads from old. - *Phase 3 (Backfill)*: Background job migrates historical data. - *Phase 4 (Read Switch)*: App switches reads to new column. - *Phase 5 (Contract)*: Stop writing to old column and drop it. 2. **Backward Compatibility**: Ensure running v1 and v2 app versions can simultaneously operate on the database. 3. **Traffic Splitting & Canary Gates**: 1% $ ightarrow$ 5% $ ightarrow$ 25% $ ightarrow$ 100% traffic shifting with automated rollback triggers. 4. **Locking & DDL Safety**: Avoiding exclusive table locks (`ACCESS EXCLUSIVE`) during migration runs. ## Output Format - **Multi-Phase Deployment Roadmap**: Numbered phases with release gates. - **Database DDL / Migration Scripts**: Safe non-blocking migration code. - **Rollback Procedure per Phase**: How to abort at any phase without data loss. ## Avoid - Renaming a database column directly in a single deployment (causes instant 500 errors). - Running large table updates in a single blocking transaction.
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- GitHub adoption: 21 GitHub stars
- Stars/forks activity: 21 stars, 1 forks; issue activity unavailable in current metadata
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- Source repository
- codebygarv/Ai-skills
- License
- MIT
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Last GitHub push
- Aug 20, 2026
- Registry updated
- Sep 1, 2026
- Instruction path
- skills/architecture/zero-downtime-migration-planner/SKILL.md
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Quality
57/100
Promising
Trust
58/100
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Audit
72/100
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- GitHub adoption: 21 GitHub stars
- Stars/forks activity: 21 stars, 1 forks; issue activity unavailable in current metadata
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