Senior platform migration talent and rates in Dental & Veterinary
Senior platform migration engineers serving dental & veterinary run roughly $125–$180/hr. Stack realities for this combination: Dentrix/Eaglesoft + Carestream imaging + Stripe — common integrations: Dentrix + Eaglesoft + Open Dental, AVImark + ezyVet vet software, Carestream + Patterson imaging. Standard cloud-devops data flows tuned to this industry's compliance + integration realities.
What platform migration actually requires in 2026
2026 migration: AWS DMS, Google Database Migration Service, Azure Database Migration for cross-cloud DB; Liquibase or Flyway for schema; Apache Kafka or Debezium for change-data-capture during cutover; feature flags (LaunchDarkly, Statsig) for gradual user migration. Senior migration engineers handle dual-write patterns, replay-and-replay-safe ETL, validation tooling, and the inevitable rollback plan. A migration without a tested rollback is not a migration — it's a hope-driven cutover and the cause of every "we lost 30 minutes of orders" disaster.