CD for DBs: Database Deployment Strategies

As organizations invest in DevOps to release more frequently, there’s a need to treat the database tier as an integral part of your automated delivery pipeline—to build, test, and deploy database changes just like any other part of your application. Avan Mathur shares strategies for database deployments and rollbacks as well as some patterns and best practices for reliably deploying databases as part of your CD pipeline, safely rolling back database code, ensuring data integrity, handling advanced scenarios and backend processes (such as scheduled tasks, ETL routines, replication architecture, and linked databases across distributed infrastructure), and handling legacy database and more modern data management solutions.