> No dedicated DBAs A couple years ago, the company I was working at had a dedicated team just for JIRA (and other workflow mgmt systems). They were looking f

> No dedicated DBAs A couple years ago, the company I was working at had a dedicated team just for JIRA (and other workflow mgmt systems). They were looking for some people to fill out the team so I asked my SRE friends if they knew any good JIRA people. I was surprised that the #1 answer was "Dedicated JIRA people? Why don't you just have someone do it from your team. JIRA isn't that hard." This immediately made me think of the "Why do we even need DBAs? It's all ORM anyway." Which of course leads to "Why is the DB so slow?" etc etc I thought that was a bad scenario till a friend was telling me at their current employer (which uses a lot of databases) they routinely ask "Is anyone here the DBA?" and the answer is "What's a DBA??"