The future of AI isn’t just new code; it’s evolving the code you already have. Tern Stories is conversations with engineers about how tackled their toughest migrations.
Want to tell your migration story, or learn how to make your migrations fast, safe, and predictable? Say hi at hello@tern.sh.
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The future of AI isn’t just new code; it’s evolving the code you already have. Tern Stories is conversations with engineers about how tackled their toughest migrations.
Want to tell your migration story, or learn how to make your migrations fast, safe, and predictable? Say hi at hello@tern.sh.
In this episode of Tern Stories, I spoke with Maude Lemaire about a migration that started with SQL and ended with people taking shifts at dawn.
She joined Slack two years out of college, and within months, she was leading a core part of the company's transition to Vitess. The project: unifying Slack's channel membership model—one of the most central, performance-sensitive parts of the product.
At one point, the system was so fragile that engineers had to be in the office at 6 A.M. every day, just to watch IBM's login spike and make sure the system didn't collapse.
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Go check out what Maude does! ➡️ https://maudethecodetoad.com/
Her book, Refactoring at Scale, is available now 📖: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/refactoring-at-scale/9781492075523/
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Tern Stories
The future of AI isn’t just new code; it’s evolving the code you already have. Tern Stories is conversations with engineers about how tackled their toughest migrations.
Want to tell your migration story, or learn how to make your migrations fast, safe, and predictable? Say hi at hello@tern.sh.
