[yeukhon]

I agree. The issue I see is it's pretty tough to hire very good DBA that knows the new cool technologies to be very honest. I've worked with some DBAs but they have no experience with Cassandra or whatever !MySQL !Postgres !Oracle !SQL, and they also have very difficult time integrating themselves with the developers. It turns out the developers have better understanding of Cassandra than the DBAs and DevOps/Ops. As Ops we just learn from them and from incidents.... Good DBAs also tend to do a lot of testing and development besides reading manual and utilizing past experiences.