Writing From the team building Migratly

How migrations actually break

The easy 80% of any migration is well served. This is a series about the other 20% - the custom fields, cross-references, parent-child structure and attachments that get quietly dropped, and what it takes to carry them across.

Foundations · Article 1

Migratly: what it is

A migration engine in which a new source-to-target pair is a description rather than a codebase. What the product does - schema discovery, coverage before it runs, reference resolution, resumable execution, self-verification - and what it deliberately doesn't.

8 August 2026 · 4 min read
Foundations · Article 2

What actually happens during a migration

Start to finish, in the order you'd experience it: connecting both systems, discovering the schemas, reviewing the coverage report, confirming the lossy fields, and what “dependency waves” means when you're watching one run.

5 September 2026 · 5 min read
Foundations · Article 3

The nth connector pair should cost almost nothing

If every source-to-target pair is its own codebase, the cost of a catalogue multiplies and the hard parts never get funded. What changes when a pair is a description instead - and what still isn't free.

5 September 2026 · 3 min read
Components · Article 4

Five ways a field can survive

Fully supported, partially supported, supported via a workaround, impossible in the target, or needing a human decision. Why every mapping carries one of these labels, and why anything short of the first one stops and asks.

5 September 2026 · 3 min read