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Adds How-it-works section to BBM

What does this MR do?

This is the first part of the efforts to re-structure the Batched Background Migrations docs https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/database/batched_background_migrations.html

This MR adds How it works? section to the docs, and:

  • Adds a high level explanation of how BBM works;
  • Adds Execution mechanism sub-section; Describe the execution mechanism behind BBM, with a diagram;
  • Adds Migration optimization sub-section; Describe how the migrations are optimizes during it's execution;
  • Moves the Idempotence section to a sub-section, under How it works?;
  • Moves the Job retry mechanism section to a sub-section, under How it works?;
  • Moves the Failed batched background migrations section to a sub-section, under How it works?;
  • Moves the Throttling batched migrations section to a sub-section, under How it works?; This docs were not merged yet. See: !119190 (merged)

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#388789 (closed)

Edited by Leonardo da Rosa

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