The competitive world demands that applications be more performant, bringing pace to the overall functioning of the application. Well, adopting new technologies and moving away from the legacy system can be miraculous. Migrating to a new database is one such miracle that can help applications leverage the overall performance and functionality. But, the process of migrating databases is a challenging task. Let us explore the top 3 challenges that are faced by the CTO while performing a migration.
1. Devising a Migration Strategy
Database migration is a strategic process. It is fraught with a lot of risks. Devising a plan for safe, secure and efficient migration of databases is really important for the migration to be successful. Well, for many teams, deciding whether to pursue a “big bang” migration — a single step process or to leverage a more methodical, incremental approach called a “trickle” or “parallel run” migration.