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• Letting go PHP database migrations
  2 projects | dev.to | 9 Oct 2025

  I dropped my requirements in an AI chat and it produces a list where I saw a few good candidates; Flyway, Liquibase and dbmate.

• FastAPI in Prod: Handling DB migrations, auth, and more
  4 projects | dev.to | 18 Feb 2025

  dbmate – A simple, language-agnostic approach to managing database migrations.

• User authentication in go
  10 projects | dev.to | 30 Jan 2025

  We will use awesome dbmate migration tool for our migrations.

• Seamless Integration Testing for Your Go Application on GitHub Actions with PostgreSQL
  2 projects | dev.to | 22 Nov 2024

  name: ci-test on: push: branches: [main] pull_request: branches: [main] env: POSTGRES_USER: postgres POSTGRES_PASSWORD: Password123 POSTGRES_DB: crud_db jobs: build: name: tests runs-on: ubuntu-latest services: postgres: image: postgres env: POSTGRES_USER: ${{ env.POSTGRES_USER }} POSTGRES_PASSWORD: ${{ env.POSTGRES_PASSWORD }} POSTGRES_DB: ${{ env.POSTGRES_DB }} ports: - 5432:5432 options: >- --health-cmd pg_isready --health-interval 10s --health-timeout 5s --health-retries 5 steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 - name: Set up Go uses: actions/setup-go@v4 with: go-version: "1.22" - name: Install dbmate for golang migrations run: | sudo curl -fsSL -o /usr/local/bin/dbmate https://github.com/amacneil/dbmate/releases/latest/download/dbmate-linux-amd64 sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/dbmate which dbmate - name: Construct DB URL id: construct_url run: echo "DB_URL=postgres://${{ env.POSTGRES_USER }}:${{ env.POSTGRES_PASSWORD }}@localhost:5432/${{ env.POSTGRES_DB }}?sslmode=disable" >> $GITHUB_ENV - run: env - name: Make Migrations run: make migrations URL=${{ env.DB_URL }} - name: Seed test DB run: go run db/seed.go - name: Test run: make test

• Dbmate: A lightweight, framework-agnostic database migration tool
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jun 2024
• Ask HN: What tool(s) do you use to code review and deploy SQL scripts?
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Apr 2024

  A regular code repo with the scripts (with pull/merge requests for review) and then a CI job that builds containers with something like dbmate https://github.com/amacneil/dbmate that can then be run against any staging/prod environment.

• Level UP your RDBMS Productivity in GO
  5 projects | dev.to | 5 Dec 2023

  As we want to maintain the track of our changes to the DB, we are going to use migrations. In this case, we are going to use dbmate. But, you can use any other tool you want.

• Rails 7.1 Released
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Oct 2023

  > For example having database migrations built in etc.

  I actually went the exact opposite route, at least when possible: https://github.com/amacneil/dbmate

  Pure SQL migrations, regardless of the back end technology that you use, completely decoupled from how each framework/library views things and therefore not dependent on them (you could even rewrite the back end in another technology later on, if needed; or swap ORMs; or avoid issues when there's a major ORM version update).

  It's really nice when you can generate entity mappings based on a live database, like with https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2022/01/31/entity-framewor...

  So in my case, I can have:

    * a DB that has migrations applied with dbmate, completely decoupled from any back end(s) that might use it

• FLaNK Stack Weekly 2 October 2023
  19 projects | dev.to | 2 Oct 2023
• How do your teams run DB migrations?
  4 projects | /r/devops | 1 Jun 2023

  You can run dbmate as part of your CI/CD pipeline. You just keep a dbmate directory in your repo and deploy migrations with your code.

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