Implementing SRE for Databases: An Action Plan
For decades, the Database Administrator (DBA) operated as the guardian of a silo. In a world of on-premises infrastructure and monolithic deployments, the model worked:
For decades, the Database Administrator (DBA) operated as the guardian of a silo. In a world of on-premises infrastructure and monolithic deployments, the model worked:
Your PostgreSQL database is getting slower. Queries that used to be fast now take a bit longer. The size of your backups is growing at
When calculating the cost of a cloud database, most teams focus on two obvious metrics: the instance size (CPU/RAM) and the amount of storage in
The performance degradation of a database is rarely a sudden event. It is a slow and insidious process, a death by a thousand cuts, where
The holy war between the proponents of Object-Relational Mappers (ORMs) and the purists of SQL is one of the most enduring in software engineering. On
In the cloud era, provisioning a powerful relational database is a matter of minutes. With a few clicks, a fully managed and scalable PostgreSQL or
In the world of database optimization, indexes are celebrated as performance heroes. They are the first tool we pull out to solve a slow SELECT query, and
For most developers and SREs, a SQL query is a declarative statement. You tell the database what you want (SELECT columns FROM tables WHERE condition), and the
For decades, the figure of the Database Administrator (DBA) has been the pillar of corporate data stability. In a world of on-premises infrastructure, physical servers,
It has become an almost sacred ritual in cloud cost management: every quarter, the FinOps team, armed with reports from tools like AWS Compute Optimizer