> the work I'm doing is aimed at people who don't want that. Your article doesn't really highlight that it's a nonissue for the vast, vast majority of develope

> the work I'm doing is aimed at people who don't want that. Your article doesn't really highlight that it's a nonissue for the vast, vast majority of developers and applications. > but the whole dance around that with deploying your application changes is not With staged deployments (if your application isn't deployed to more than one host arguing about downtime for maintenance seems ridiculous) the actual downtime can be very close to the time the db migration takes.