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Re:GitHub's online schema migration for MySQL by sethhochberg on Thursday May 03, 2018 @12:00AM (#16983268)
There are several other notable options - SoundCloud's LHM, Facebook's online schema change tool, etc. They all have their different quirks.

(And as modern MySQL releases get better online DDL support, become less and less critical - though still useful for all of those edge cases where native lockless online DDLs can't work yet)

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