If you want to make your development team squirm, ask them about database schema changes or API versioning. Most development teams struggle with changing database schemas and updating API versions without breaking existing code.
Alex Rasmussen is an expert in helping teams through these struggles. His talk will examine database schema changes and API versioning as two instances of schema evolution: how your systems respond when the structure of your structured data changes. Alex will go through both general principles like schema compatibility and specific techniques to help you learn:
- Recognizing what makes schema changes easy or hard
- Handling hard schema changes safely
- Knowing what questions to ask to help your teams reason about schema evolution up-front
This is an important topic for technology leaders to understand in order to understand and help their teams navigate one of the tougher issues they face.
July 10th, 2019 11:00AM PDT, 2:00PM EDT, 7:00PM BST
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