[joshuamorton]

The code is open source though, you can read it. The cli examples point you towards the relevant bits of the actual database code to read.

For my own sake, I'm not sure what is so surprising here. "Turn up a hot second replica and fail over to it intentionally behind a global load balancer." Is pretty well trodden ground.

[Snelius]

> The code is open source though, you can read it

Thank you! :D

> Is pretty well trodden ground.

YES!! But the article point us to it's a 400TB+ w/o downtime migration. This is impossible. That why is looks like clickbait and advertising of a product.

[joshuamorton]

I will simply point out that I'm aware of larger zero down-time migrations, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih97gwNmkRA