The COBOL Problem
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This covers a lot of ground on the Declarative vs. Procedural question. It explains a lot of the considerations that lead to choosing a procedural schema evolution vs. a declarative schema with an implied change sequence to migrate to each new declared state.
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People talk about CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment).
They also need to talk about CM (Continuous Migration).
"Wait, what?" you ask.
When we roll out a new version of the software (CD) there are three common situations.