# Shift -- Safe and Easy Database Migrations

DevFeed: [Shift -- Safe and Easy Database Migrations](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/shift-safe-and-easy-database-migrations-15850.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developer.squareup.com/blog/shift-safe-and-easy-database-migrations>)

Author: Square Engineering

Published: 2016-04-15T16:11:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Square Corner Blog RSS Feed](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/square-corner-blog-rss-feed.md>)

Topics: [MySQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mysql.md>), [Database Migration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database-migration.md>), [Containers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/containers.md>), [Tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tooling.md>)

Tags: [containers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/containers.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [migrations](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/migrations.md>), [mysql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mysql.md>), [operations](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/operations.md>), [process](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/process.md>), [schema](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/schema.md>), [tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tooling.md>)

## AI overview

Square describes Shift, a service for running online schema migrations on MySQL databases. The article explains how the service evolved to support database isolation and let developers manage migrations more independently, and announces that the project is being open sourced.

## Source excerpt

A service that helps you run online schema migrations for MySQL databases.