The DBA is essential for big companies, not only Facebook or Apple. The author of the post works for a database-as-a-service provider, it's just marketing.
Exactly.. Why bother optimizing your database, just spin up more servers (which we will happily continue to squeeze your opex budget dry)!
It seems cloud/SaaS is the new answer to throwing hardware at the problem. Something about the inefficiency grinds at me. I do get at certain scales, it makes sense.. But it's not always obvious where that line is.
It seems cloud/SaaS is the new answer to throwing hardware at the problem. Something about the inefficiency grinds at me. I do get at certain scales, it makes sense.. But it's not always obvious where that line is.