Summary

This was a pivotal chapter if you want to really expand and extend the skill sets you have learned throughout this book and start putting them into practice. Prior to this chapter, we focused on graph pipelines. This extends the knowledge and insights you have gained further by looking at the importance of having a flexible and responsive schema to change.

Stemming from the tools you have been equipped with for schema change, we looked at what this means for your existing schema and what you need to know to build an adaptive schema. Furthermore, we looked at the reason for refactoring schemas, focusing on why you may need to refactor such as because of graph database relationships and the various changes that need to be considered when building your initial schema design.

Following the initial concepts of schema design, we then moved on to looking at how to effectively evolve your schema in production.

This focused on a use case of adding additional Twitter Circles...