Comments on: The Evolution of the DBA Role https://www.percona.com/blog/the-evolution-of-the-dba-role/ Thu, 30 Apr 2020 19:05:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: David Harper https://www.percona.com/blog/the-evolution-of-the-dba-role/#comment-10972075 Sat, 11 Apr 2020 06:56:05 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=66470#comment-10972075 In my organisation, the role of DBA is expanding to include many aspects of DevOps: software development, systems administration, hands-on management of monitoring systems, automated deployment of databases, application support, and adoption of tools such as Git and Ansible as part of the standard DBA toolkit alongside “traditional” tools like PMM, OEM, the ‘mysql’ command-line client and so on.

]]> By: anon4cec https://www.percona.com/blog/the-evolution-of-the-dba-role/#comment-10972068 Thu, 09 Apr 2020 19:23:29 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=66470#comment-10972068 What is needed is clear metrics at the beginning set by a system engineer or architect. Someone in a developer role and not in a database role should not be making these decisions. I find when a person in a database role confronts the developers about operational boundaries and process, little if anything has been thought about. In addition the monitoring of these metrics need to be made available to everyone and translatable to the wider business so anyone can call out problems in the system’s lifecycle which makes it clear to database folks (and the wider business) what the real priorities are.

]]> By: Jacob Nikom https://www.percona.com/blog/the-evolution-of-the-dba-role/#comment-10972066 Wed, 08 Apr 2020 23:34:21 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=66470#comment-10972066 The best situation when DBA and application developer is the same person.

]]> By: jonathan https://www.percona.com/blog/the-evolution-of-the-dba-role/#comment-10972063 Wed, 08 Apr 2020 18:28:00 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=66470#comment-10972063 If the DBA role will evolve, it will be an evolution around the cloud – where the majority of cloud users believe that their provider already functions as a DBA, so they do not need to hire one.

]]> By: Timur Solodovnikov https://www.percona.com/blog/the-evolution-of-the-dba-role/#comment-10972062 Wed, 08 Apr 2020 18:15:16 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=66470#comment-10972062 Agree 100%.

Regarding involving DBA into design – it not about clouds, let me explain. Most of developers do the same errors and even with traditional application design involving DBA helps to solve a lot of problems.

Typical issues:
– misunderstanding of indexes and how they work.
– DB schema design – normalisation.
– DB schema design – choosing proper data type.
– Application HA design(ready to handle bottlenecks on any layers like network/DB)

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