CTO of TiDB here. TLDR, yes, DBA is still a good job, but to embrace new technologies. From a database developer's point of view, I have always admired the wo

CTO of TiDB here. TLDR, yes, DBA is still a good job, but to embrace new technologies. From a database developer's point of view, I have always admired the work of DBA, although I can develop the kernel of the database, I can also write a SQL engine, never been good at writing complex and efficient SQL, totally different skills. I have noticed a trend in the database field in recent years: Everything goes to the cloud. Because of cloud is more and more popular, and the cloud is providing fully managed database service, it is hard to say the trend of traditional DBA job is getting less and less, the DBA expert is still extremely popular, However DBA will alive and can be more welcome, because there are more and more new technologies are evolving fast, just like what we're proudly building: TiDB, an HTAP database provides SQL interface, support complex analytic workloads, as well as the OLTP load. DBA could reuse their skills, and even better, they are not just DBA, they can also act as a data expert, help application developers to optimize SQL queries, and schema design, and help them to design and optimize systems. A good example is my recent little side project: https://ossinsight.io/ https://ossinsight.io/, although the architecture is simple, it contains some complex SQL in there, I turned to my DBA friends to get this application done correctly and efficiently.