Introduction # If you have been in the development game for more than a few years, you know the sinking feeling of a database crash with a stale backup—or worse, no backup at all.
Introduction # In the landscape of modern backend development, the database often becomes the first bottleneck as your application scales. While Go (Golang) is celebrated for its concurrency model and raw performance, its standard library package database/sql is frequently misunderstood. It is not just a connector; it is a sophisticated connection pool manager.
In the fast-paced world of backend development, the only constant is change. Your application’s data requirements today will almost certainly look different next month. This is where database migrations come in—they are the version control system for your database schema.
