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+title: Upgrading incrementally
+date: 2025-04-17
+permalink: daily/2025/04/17/incrementally
+tags:
+  - software-development
+cta: pair
+snippet: |
+  Did you know you can have more than one version of your website in production at the same time?
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+Did you know you can have more than one version of your website in production at the same time?
+
+If you're migrating to a new platform or upgrading to a new major version, such as Drupal 7 to Drupal 11, you don't need to do it all at once.
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+You can do it incrementally, and seamlessly for end users.
+
+The MVP for your new website can be a particular section or a single page that is developed and launched to production alongside the current website.
+
+Depending on the path someone goes to, they'll either see the new website or the old one.
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+Focusing on delivering a single page or section of a website is much faster compared to rebuilding the entire thing, it's a lot less risky as the feedback loop is much shorter and you get feedback from real users.
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+Once you have the new MVP deployed to a hosting environment, you can configure a proxy to assign traffic between it and the existing hosting based on path, request headers, or a combination of different options.
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+This is an approach I've taken with my website as I've upgraded between different versions of Drupal and also static site generators such as Jekyll, Astro and Sculpin.
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+Instead of waiting for months to deliver a new website to production, do it in days or weeks.