{
  "id": 4381945,
  "title": "A column changed type 8 days after I mapped it, and nothing told me",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/30/a-column-changed-type-8-days-after-i-mapped-it-and-nothing-told-me",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-30T07:59:36.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/andrey_m/a-column-changed-type-8-days-after-i-mapped-it-and-nothing-told-me-5a2n"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "I was rewriting a Java/Spring backend to Go. The database wasn't going anywhere — it already existed, with real data in it, and eighteen tables' worth of history behind it. The plan was simple: keep the schema, replace the service layer. Early on, asset looked like this: CREATE TABLE `asset` ( `id` bigint NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT , ... `value` int NOT NULL , PRIMARY KEY ( `id` ) ); I mapped it to…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}