<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><?xml-stylesheet href="/rss/styles.xsl" type="text/xsl"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title>Catch Ignore Blog - Distributed Systems</title><description>Latest posts on Distributed Systems from the Catch Ignore Blog.</description><link>https://catch-ignore.vercel.app/tags/distributed-systems/1/</link><language>en-us</language><generator>Astro v5.18.1</generator><atom:link href="https:/catch-ignore.vercel.app//tags/distributed-systems/1/rss.xml/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><image><url>https://catch-ignore.vercel.app/images/logomark-with-bg.png</url><title>Catch Ignore Blog - Distributed Systems</title><link>https:/catch-ignore.vercel.app//tags/distributed-systems/1/</link></image><item><title>Zero-Downtime Database Migrations in Distributed Systems</title><link>https://catch-ignore.vercel.app/blog/zero-downtime-database-migrations-in-distributed-systems/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://catch-ignore.vercel.app/blog/zero-downtime-database-migrations-in-distributed-systems/</guid><description>Explore how the expand-contract pattern enables zero-downtime database schema migrations in distributed systems. Based on my master&apos;s research, I explain how PostgreSQL, Liquibase, and blue-green deployments can be combined to evolve database schemas without interrupting running applications.</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><atom:link href="https://catch-ignore.vercel.app/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><media:content type="image/jpg" width="1920" height="1080" medium="image" url="https://catch-ignore.vercel.app//_astro/banner.tQdeubmh.jpg"/><category>Data &amp; Databases</category><category>Postgres</category><category>Software Architecture</category><category>Distributed Systems</category><category>Zero Downtime</category><category>Database Migrations</category><author>Coen van Kampen</author></item></channel></rss>