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postgres November 1st, 2026

Upgrade Postgres Under a Live Laravel App with Logical Replication

pg_upgrade needs the database stopped for a window nobody can predict. Logical replication gets you a cutover measured in seconds — if you handle sequences, DDL and your queue workers correctly.

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laravel July 3rd, 2026

Zero-Downtime Database Migrations in Laravel: The Expand and Contract Pattern

Renaming a column in production is a classic self-inflicted outage. Here is the expand and contract playbook that ships breaking schema changes in Laravel with zero downtime and an instant rollback path.

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