Postgres Aurora DB major version upgrade with minimal downtime
Lyft Engineering
MARCH 11, 2024
Instead, we chose to use an envoy circuitbreaker , which returns an HTTP 503 code immediately to the downstream caller. This should definitely help bring down the downtime further given that all of the steps for replication, cutting the traffic over to the upgraded DB, and the rollback setup would be handled within their platform.
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