Migrations the “Critter Stack” Way

I was the guest speaker today on the .NET Data Community Standup doing a talk on how the “Critter Stack” (Marten, Wolverine, and Weasel) support a style of database migrations and even configuration for messaging brokers that greatly reduces development time friction for more productive teams.

The general theme is “it should just work” so developers and testers can get their work done and even iterate on different approaches without having to spend much time fiddling with database or other infrastructure configuration.

And I also shared some hard lessons learned from previous OSS project failures that made the Critter Stack community so adamant that the default configurations “should just work.”