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Indeed. It's already getting difficult to hire a competent DBA who can end-to-end manage a MySQL on a bare metal; things like replication, backups, setting up d
by vishnugupta 4y ago
Indeed. It's already getting difficult to hire a competent DBA who can end-to-end manage a MySQL on a bare metal; things like replication, backups, setting up data pipeline to data warehouse and what not. I'd give it about 5-8 years before DBA gets de-skilled.
Similarly, managing servers through Chef/Puppet used to be a thing just a decade ago. Now with the onset of serverless, Lambda etc., it's slowly fading away.
- WJW 4y agoThe total number of databases in the world has not gone down though, rather the opposite I suspect. It's not that there aren't any competent DBAs anymore, rather it's just that the cloud companies have better offers for the DBAs out there than most small/medium enterprises are willing to pay.
- Corrado 4y agoYes, and it's very difficult to find punch card operators nowadays as well. Technology moves on, you have to move or get left behind.