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Charanjit Chana

My previous job... never? Pace of development, size of the codebase and because of where my team was in the chain meant it rarely (ok, ok, never) happened. Not for the want of trying, but other things like code coverage, performance or bug fixes always trumped upgrading dependencies.

We were also insulated because we were so far downstream from where the infrastructure was defined and where decisions were made. That had it's own challenges but for this specific topic it was probably something we thought about very little.

For other projects I've worked on, I've been lucky that migrations were very easy. I'm talking < 15 minutes to have it done so it's been a no brainer to get it done. The caveat for that is I'm thinking back to over a decade ago and the projects were nowhere near as complicated as the ones I've worked on since.