James Brown

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icon location Oakland, CA icon location Software and Systems Engineer formerly at @instrumentl, @EasyPost, @uber, @Yelp, and @google. Enjoys writing Python, Rust, Ruby, C, and Puppet manifests.

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Defer Index Creation [feature request]?

We were changing the type of a column (`INT` to `BIGINT`), which isn't supported by native MySQL online DDL. It was either `gh-ost` or `pt-online-schema-change`.

hang on startup with 5.3.5+ and carrierwave

Nothing in our codebase is using `after_initialize` directly, but I wouldn't be entirely surprised if some dependency did. I hacked up rails to print out everything that calls `after_initialize` and...