Episode 69: No Downtime with Brent Anderson

In this episode, Brent Anderson shares his Elixir journey and discusses a major migration project he undertook at Knock. The team successfully upgraded their Postgres database from version 11.9 to 15.3 without any downtime. Brent highlights the advantages of using the Beam and Elixir in managing concurrent systems and the flexibility it provides.

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Blog post: https://knock.app/blog/zero-downtime-postgres-upgrades

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