We do migrations for schema on app startup (built into the app).
Any general data changes are done outside the pipeline as a pre or post deployment step.
Migrations on startup aren’t perfect, you have to be careful that it doesn’t take too long on startup.
Honestly the pros outweighs the cons. You can fire up a new site/db without much effort which is something we do often.
Trump is almost 1:1 a character straight from Transmetropolitan.
Then you have people like Elon that are straight from any cyberpunk media corporate heads.
The parallels between the themes of a cyberpunk dystopia and the present are drawing pretty close.
We just don’t get any of the cool shit like cybernetic implants.