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Data migrations are notoriously difficult to test. They take a long time to run on large datasets. They often involve heavy, inflexible database engines. And they’re only meant to run once, so people think it’s throw-away code, and therefore not worth writing tests for. Not so.
The one-stop shop for all your user data. Home directories. Easy to backup, easy to migrate. Available since the dawn of multi-user operating systems. Am I the only one in the world who despises them?
Software can do so much more than it does today, with mature programming languages, standard instructions and not a hint of deep learning. Just plain, old, “shallow” business logic, thoughtfully implemented, relying on existing data. And it’s up to us, developers, to champion these improvements.
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