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Upgrading Postgres: 5 Versions Behind, 4 Databases to Merge | Ep. 03


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When Postgres 11 approached end-of-life, a major travel company brought in site reliability engineer Ninad Pundalik to lead the upgrade. The setup: multiple Ruby on Rails apps, with multiple Postgres 11 instances on AWS RDS. No in-house infra team.  

No clear ownership. Some tables still in use, others long forgotten.  

Despite the uncertainty, the migration went smoothly. The team cut over cleanly, avoided downtime, and ended up with a simpler, more reliable setup than they started with.  

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