A stage-gated migration playbook for hi-tech teams moving from fragmented multi-database stacks to a real-time converged data architecture. Covers four diagnostic questions to assess readiness, three production case studies (Ookla reducing from six databases to three, Epigen doing real-time vector search on video streams, and Heap ingesting billions of events at full fidelity), and a five-step phased migration approach that avoids big-bang replacement. Key principle: collapse the hot path by replacing one system at a time while keeping the data warehouse for non-latency-sensitive workloads, and avoid adding SingleStore as yet another silo.
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How to Know You're ReadyWhat This Looks Like in PracticeThe Migration Playbook - Stage-Gated, Not Big BangClosing Thought3K Impressions