https://mongo-migrate-kit.vercel.app/blog/ Articles on MongoDB migrations — rollbacks, locking, transactions, CI/CD, and best practices. en-US Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:13:26 GMT https://mongo-migrate-kit.vercel.app/blog/mongodb-migration-best-practices https://mongo-migrate-kit.vercel.app/blog/mongodb-migration-best-practices Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Ten MongoDB migration best practices learned the hard way — reversibility, checksums, locking, dry runs, transactions, never deleting history, and running them in CI. https://mongo-migrate-kit.vercel.app/blog/mongodb-migrations-ci-cd-github-actions https://mongo-migrate-kit.vercel.app/blog/mongodb-migrations-ci-cd-github-actions Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT A practical setup for running MongoDB migrations in CI/CD — a pending-check gate, machine-readable JSON output, dry-run previews, and locking that survives concurrent pipeline runs. https://mongo-migrate-kit.vercel.app/blog/run-migrations-on-startup-serverless https://mongo-migrate-kit.vercel.app/blog/run-migrations-on-startup-serverless Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT How to run MongoDB migrations safely from your app's startup code or a serverless function — without leaking connections or letting parallel instances race. https://mongo-migrate-kit.vercel.app/blog/mongodb-migration-locking-concurrent-deploys https://mongo-migrate-kit.vercel.app/blog/mongodb-migration-locking-concurrent-deploys Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Two deploys running migrations at the same time can corrupt your database. Here's how a MongoDB-native distributed lock prevents it — with TTLs, stale-lock reclaim, and heartbeats. https://mongo-migrate-kit.vercel.app/blog/rollback-specific-mongodb-migration https://mongo-migrate-kit.vercel.app/blog/rollback-specific-mongodb-migration Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT migrate-mongo only rolls back the last migration. Here's how to roll back one specific MongoDB migration safely — by file, by batch, or the last N — without nuking the rest. https://mongo-migrate-kit.vercel.app/blog/7-things-migrate-mongo-cant-do https://mongo-migrate-kit.vercel.app/blog/7-things-migrate-mongo-cant-do Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Seven real gaps in migrate-mongo that cost time and caused production incidents — single-file rollback, dry-run, native locking, checksums, transactions, and more. https://mongo-migrate-kit.vercel.app/blog/switching-from-migrate-mongo https://mongo-migrate-kit.vercel.app/blog/switching-from-migrate-mongo Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT A step-by-step, zero-downtime guide to switching from migrate-mongo to mongo-migrate-kit without breaking anything that already works. https://mongo-migrate-kit.vercel.app/blog/why-i-built-mongo-migrate-kit https://mongo-migrate-kit.vercel.app/blog/why-i-built-mongo-migrate-kit Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The story behind mongo-migrate-kit: how migrate-mongo's inability to roll back one bad migration on a Friday led to a new MongoDB migration tool — and how to switch in one command.