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1. Using incremental single-digit integers exposes the migrations to clashes. So, if one developer writes migrations on one branch while another developer writes migrations on a different branch, there will be a conflict of migrations when they both merge. GitHub should pick this up, but it’s important to keep the traffic of migrations low, plan out database alterations properly, and keep the services using the migrations small. If this is a concern for you, however, please use a different migrations tool that is heavier but has more guardrails.
2. Distroless servers do not have shells. This means that if a hacker manages to access our server container, they cannot run any commands or inspect the contents of the container.
3. In the login request, we get the token that is returned from the server in the test script and assign it to a collection variable that can be accessed by other requests, removing the reliance on Python.
4. Environment variables are simply easier...