Taps for Easy Database Transfers
http://adam.blog.heroku.com/past/2009/2/11/taps_for_easy_database_transfers/
Migrating databases from one server to another is a pain: mysqldump on old server -> gzip -> scp big dump file -> gunzip -> mysql. It takes a long time, and is very manual and (and thus error-prone), and generally has the stink of “lame” hanging about it.
Ricardo Chimal, Blake Mizerany and I cooked up our attempt at a solution to this problem: Taps.
