Seamless Database Migration with Prisma by Zoriah CocioSeamless Database Migration with Prisma by Zoriah Cocio

Seamless Database Migration with Prisma

Zoriah Cocio

Zoriah Cocio

Real Postgres
Underrated: Prisma 🐐 Entire SaaS businesses have been built on top of the Prisma ecosystem— including OSS ones like Dub.co. Have been loving the recent performance improvements as well 🔥
With Prisma, we migrated a core production system from MySQL to SQL Server with zero downtime, simply by swapping a few references and updating our schema. I can't imagine building systems without it; it's instrumental to major projects at Lush.
I have been using Prisma since day one, and it has become my number one choice for ORM. It's the default in @supastarter, and even though things like Drizzle might be more lightweight, the DX of Prisma is just unbeaten.
Underrated: Prisma 🐐 Entire SaaS businesses have been built on top of the Prisma ecosystem— including OSS ones like Dub.co. Have been loving the recent performance improvements as well 🔥
With Prisma, we migrated a core production system from MySQL to SQL Server with zero downtime, simply by swapping a few references and updating our schema. I can't imagine building systems without it; it's instrumental to major projects at Lush.
I have been using Prisma since day one, and it has become my number one choice for ORM. It's the default in @supastarter, and even though things like Drizzle might be more lightweight, the DX of Prisma is just unbeaten.
Prisma Accelerate handled 670,000+ webhooks from Shopify when the orders webhook from 2022/23 was fired, which cost us about $11. Not bad for accidentally being DDoS'd to a Heroku Postgres instance with zero downtime, and all the entries made it through.
Prisma Accelerate handled 670,000+ webhooks from Shopify when the orders webhook from 2022/23 was fired, which cost us about $11. Not bad for accidentally being DDoS'd to a Heroku Postgres instance with zero downtime, and all the entries made it through.
I love how Prisma makes my life as a developer so easy. The TypeScript autocompletion is the best I've used, having tried many different ORMs. The migrations are a breeze. And I love how easy it is to get a full view of your database from the Prisma schema file. It's all in one place in readable format.
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Posted Apr 20, 2026

Contributed to the migration of a core system from MySQL to SQL Server using Prisma without downtime.