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There is no easy out, if you really need to scale, regardless of infrastructure you are going to need someone who understands databases. If you're lucky you mig
by xenoterracide 18y ago
There is no easy out, if you really need to scale, regardless of infrastructure you are going to need someone who understands databases. If you're lucky you might be able to find someone who can do more than one job. e.g. dba+sys admin. Just make sure that they really do know both things.
- thwarted 18y agoYeah, this kind of question seems really close to "I'm a business guy, all I need is a tech guy to implement my idea", which implies there's some way to avoid having to know how to do something that is core to the business.
- jacobscott 18y agoI want to make it very clear that I'm not a business guy. Think of it in the context of building a database-backed enterprise app that customers run in house. You don't want to ship a DBA to every customer...
- thwarted 18y agoFor that you use an embedded database system. Many enterprise apps come with embedded database systems, or require a major database system to be installed in tandem, and these things are targeted at medium sized companies that don't have DBA specific to the the department that is using the app.
- xenoterracide 18y agoor explicitly tell them how to configure their system, and what kind of a system to run it on. this doesn't help you avoid a dba, it merely avoids them having one.
- jacobscott 18y agoIt seems like I asked the question in the wrong context. Sorry about that. Given that scale is hard, how about monitoring, or management?