[antoko]

Apparently you didn't make it to the conclusion.

  So perhaps the role of the DBA isn’t necessarily dead, it’s just moved
  to its new home at the datastore-as-a-service provider. The successful
  DBA will understand that this new world means handling petabytes of
  data and billions of operations on thousands of logical databases.
  They will cope with less mature database technologies in increasingly
  difficult workload environments. They will automate or die.

  Long live the DBA.

The whole post was making the exact same point as you in the end, the author actually runs a datastore-as-a-service business.

[falcolas]

I did, except that:

> The successful DBA will understand that this new world means handling petabytes of data and billions of operations on thousands of logical databases.

is untrue. Most of our customers have DBs that are in the GB size. A few have TB size DBs, and none are on that scale.

datastore-as-a-service doesn't replace DBAs - we make good money being remote DBAs for people who are using datastore-as-a-service providers, because they still run into the same problems as everyone else.