Building Production-ready Apps with Automated Database Migrations on Replit

Audience: Programmers and Engineers Skill level: Intermediate Introduction Separating development and production databases is fundamental to safe software development - it prevents accidental data loss, allows developers to test changes freely, and ensures production data remains stable and secure. Yet managing database changes between environments can be hard at the best of times, even sometimes for us engineers. Now imagine replacing the engineer with an AI agent, operating on behalf of a user who may not be aware of why having separate development and production databases is important or…