[mrpadie]

This topic inspired my co-founder and I to build dbsupervisor.com as a tool to monitor database health, and offer opinionated suggestions to improve product uptime and performance.

As others have pointed out, traditional DBA roles are fading away due to cloud offerings abstracting many of the problems DBA’s would otherwise be responsible for. Hardware is cheaper and more available which means that companies throw more RAM/CPU at their problems, whilst areas like index planning, performance tuning, query optimisation, and resource monitoring take a back seat. In our experience, this eventually catches up to you in the form of poor performance and unhappy customers.

We believe that tech can augment most of the insights offered by a traditional DBA and help avoid these pains early on, especially for smaller teams with limited database expertise. We’re currently in private beta, but will be opening up more broadly in the coming weeks. We’d love to get your feedback on our approach - sign up for the beta or AMA if you have any questions!

[no-s]

Recently I’ve thought it might be good to go back into consulting as a Data Architect. I would happily partner up with a good product if it there was (hands waving) “synergy”...