diff --git a/src/instrumentation.ts b/src/instrumentation.ts
index 9a67d1c..6041fe7 100644
--- a/src/instrumentation.ts
+++ b/src/instrumentation.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 export async function register() {
 	if (process.env.NEXT_RUNTIME === 'nodejs') {
 		if (['true', 'yes', '1'].includes(process.env.AUTOMIGRATE?.toLowerCase()!)) {
-			const DBMigrate = require('db-migrate');
+			// using require here increases build times to like 10 minutes for some reason
+			const DBMigrate = await eval('imp' + 'ort("db-migrate")');
 			const dbmigrate = DBMigrate.getInstance(true);
 			await dbmigrate.up();
 		}