Engineering · 2026-10-03 · 7 min

Humpty Dumpty Had a Great Fall: Database Migrations You Can Actually Roll Back

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty together again. A destructive schema migration is the same: once a column is dropped and the app has written past it, no rollback button brings it back. Expand, migrate, contract — and never break the egg in one step.

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