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Evolutionary Database Design
Evolutionary database design enables agile teams to iteratively evolve database schemas alongside application code by leveraging automated migration scripts, rigorous version control, and continuous integration pipelines. Key practices include treating all schema and data changes as versioned migrations, automating database provisioning for every developer and environment, and ensuring frequent, small, reversible changes with close collaboration between DBAs and developers. This approach scales to hundreds of developers and database instances without increasing DBA headcount, significantly reducing release risk and supporting uninterrupted 24/7 operations.
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