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I miss being on a team with a proper DBA. Startups these days expect the full-stack dev to know everything under the sun. Your post was really great to read. Do
by pryelluw 10y ago
I miss being on a team with a proper DBA. Startups these days expect the full-stack dev to know everything under the sun. Your post was really great to read. Do you keep a blog?
- falcolas 10y agoI don't. If you really would like to learn more about the ins and outs of MySQL, though, I couldn't recommend the Percona blog higher. The unfortunate thing, in my opinion, is that so much of being a software/system administrator of any flavor is having been burned by that software. That experience makes you invaluable, but it also makes you expensive to hire. Expensive hires are really hard for startups to justify. That said, if you reach the size where you're having to shard your DB to hit performance metrics, you're at the point where it will typically cost you less to absorb that expensive hire (or consultant) than to attempt to naively engineer around the problem. https://www.percona.com/blog/ https://www.percona.com/blog/
- user5994461 10y ago> Expensive hires are really hard for startups to justify. Or... startups are hard for experienced workers to justify. Who would want to work for less money, shit equity, bad hours, on calls and surrounded by constant waves of variable level developers that you don't/can't get enough time to train.