Not going as smoothly as I would have liked 
It is back up. Sorry about the downtime.
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Every opportunity is gold to learn more about the system and how to make it more reliable, right? 
Any backend improvements deriving from this “outage”?
Not yet because I had to roll everything back. This is a big part of the separation from Strava work. Nothing visible to users (other than bug fixes and workout builder changes described elsewhere) but the site will be faster.
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Faster is already a Customer Facing improvement (if measurable, even better! :P)
Surely though, the fact that you had to rollback a migration means you learned something about the infrastructure, identified an underlying/unexpected issue, which is in turn going to be useful to better next migrations…?
Well, it is noticeably faster!
Ah yes. I learned that its better to run the same version of the database on your laptop as in live because otherwise db migration scripts might not work So tomorrow morning I need to try upgrade the database.
Oh yeah. As the joke goes: “Everybody has a testing environment. Some people are lucky enough enough to have a totally separate environment to run production in.” 
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