At work, I've spent a slightly-harrowing few days with Amazon's Data Migration Service. It's basically a good tool, great that it exists, but it has many sharp corners and I'm glad that we've got access to an SME for when something baffling happens.
It's also funny, because it's basically the same thing as Backfilter -- the last big Go project that I worked on at Shopify with the Database Agility folks. It takes a binlog and a list of tables and it pages through the tables backfilling rows while also interleving writes from the MySQL binlog into the output. The only difference* is that Backfilter was MySQL only (at least, it was when I worked at Shopify) while DMS is specifically designed for going from one database to another.
They even have a verification process with retries, very similar to Backfilter. I suppose there's only so many ways to solve this problem, but it's still humorous to me.
*: probably not the only difference.
As I have a new corporation, I have a new Wise account. I'm still so happy with them, basically been a customer for ten years and it's a product that basically "just works", does what I want, and charges reasonable fees. A small miracle in 2026. As far as I can see they aren't rushing out to undermine it with AI, either. Wild. Someone should report them to the capitalism police.
Should I get an ASN for my corporation? Do I need one? Would it be fun? Anycast my website from the UK and from Canada?