Working with DBAs in a DevOps World

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Advice: put a technology catalog in place listing every cache, datastore and framework and require a vetting process before adding things like Cassandra or a new hosted service; run cross‑functional architecture reviews (include InfoSec, finance, ETL, SRE) with a design doc that states problem, tradeoffs and SLOs; perform planned fire drills to take services down and confirm recovery times; treat JSON blobs and untracked schema shortcuts as explicit tech debt so a scaling system (55,000+ customers, 1 trillion emails processed) doesn’t collapse unexpectedly.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:14About me
3. 1:19About Sangria
4. 1:49Sangria stats
5. 2:10Customers
6. 2:23DevOps
7. 2:42What is DevOps
8. 3:08A little story
9. 3:46Testing
10. 4:13Deploys
11. 5:00Hire a DBA
12. 5:34DBA has transformed
13. 5:58How is your Narnia now
14. 6:08We tested the code
15. 6:19What did you test
16. 6:41Did you do any load testing
17. 7:18What about you know
18. 7:42The scariest thing
19. 8:02Everybody is unhappy
20. 8:31It will get better
21. 8:49Technology Catalog
22. 9:55Customers are not paying you
23. 10:21Dont beat that guy
24. 11:10Know why
25. 12:27Things to consider
26. 12:57New billing system
27. 14:01Partitions
28. 14:36Complex Systems
29. 15:36Problem Statement
30. 16:19Stakeholders
31. 18:34Architecture Review
32. 19:11Who needs to be in the Architecture Review
33. 20:48The importance of specialization
34. 21:36Writing the code
35. 22:03Fire drill
36. 23:21Documentation
37. 23:31Taking Down Services
38. 24:12Tech Debt
39. 25:47Data Bases
40. 27:44Cloud
41. 28:09Product Managers
42. 29:09Stability is a feature
43. 29:22You are the next accidental DBA

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