Data migration is often a requirement in an application development effort, whether it’s a greenfield project or an application redesign. Despite this, very little attention gets paid to data migration during the design and development phase, with activity often pushed back to the latter part of the project. While this approach might allow an undivided focus on migration, it comes with a few risks, not the least of which is that teams lack the time and resources to properly test the migration and surrounding code.

The concept of continuous data migration is founded on the idea of developing migration scripts during the development of an application and maintaining them through versions just like the application code. A continuous migration approach allows you to test your migrations alongside code development, ensuring your data and code assets stay in sync.

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