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Facebook with 400m users had just one DBAs if I remember correctly. I wonder if people ever runs the numbers.
by ChrisCinelli 7y ago
Facebook with 400m users had just one DBAs if I remember correctly. I wonder if people ever runs the numbers.
- laumars 7y agoHave you got a citation for that claim because that figure seems a little hard to believe. In terms of your general point: it really depends on your business. In my last job there were 4 DBAs out of 12 total IT staff and they were constantly busy. In my current job there are no DBAs in a much larger team and yet no requirement to need one either. The two businesses produce vastly different products.
- HelloNurse 7y agoMillions of Facebook accounts are a pretty harmless size metric. DBA workload increases with the number of employees, which is proportional to support requests, accidents, changes, strange needs that need to be addressed, and so on. Buying and provisioning disks before space runs out is a small part of a DBA's job, and a modest constant-size task compared to predicting how fast space is running out.
- jsjohnst 7y ago> Facebook with 400m users had just one DBAs if I remember correctly. You don’t remember correctly. There are multiple and to my knowledge there hasn’t been just one in at least the past ten years.
- rwultsch 7y agoI was on the DBA team there around that MAU. I had lots of company and support from SRO (aka jr DBA's) as well as other teams (provisioning, etc...).