I’m not scared. We’ve seen the rise of DBRE because all of the ZIRP startups (the ones who survived, anyway) realized they couldn’t just YOLO their way through

I’m not scared. We’ve seen the rise of DBRE because all of the ZIRP startups (the ones who survived, anyway) realized they couldn’t just YOLO their way through indefinitely, and that RDBMS is hard, actually. Of course, they couldn’t admit that they needed DBAs, so they invented a title and mixed in SRE so it would seem cool. I might be in a cost center, but companies will cut this cost center to their own demise.