4 verified briefings on Database Migration. Each story includes a plain-English summary, why it matters, and the concrete action engineering teams should take.
Observability platform OpenReplay switched from Postgres to ClickHouse to manage billions of daily user events. The new system handles up to 6 TB of data per day on a single server, enabling sub-second analytical queries.
Travel giant Agoda replaced its massive 72-server SQL database with just two DragonflyDB clusters. The move cut data access times by 8x, improving performance for its hotel price cache that handles huge volumes of traffic.
Google's engineers built a new command-line tool, Antigravity, to automate the complex process of migrating databases to Spanner. The tool manages dual-writing to old and new systems, ensuring zero downtime for critical financial applications.
Oracle's AI Database now supports the EBCDIC character set used by IBM mainframes. This removes a major technical barrier, making it significantly easier for large enterprises to migrate their legacy applications to modern infrastructure.