Can RDS worsen an outage ?? That’s another way to think about this question. In my experience, it very clearly increases outages, by tying one or both hands behind your back. Believe me, when I say, that is terribly frustrating when you’re putting out fires! Downsides of Upgrading RDS There are several downsides to upgrading RDS….
An article I read on Tech Crunch recently got me thinking about startup culture. In Are You Building A Company, Or Just Your Credentials Geoff Lewis, expressed his distaste for a friend’s plan to get on Y Combinator’s ‘no idea’ startup incubation program. In this experimental approach, groups or individuals with a desire to be part of a…
Oracle Database Administrators or often called DBAs are an indispensable part of your operations team. They manage the systems that house all your business data, your customers, products, transactions, and all that analytical data on what customers are actually doing. If you’ve ever been on the hunt, you may wonder, why the shortage of DBAs. To…
In today’s data-driven world, ensuring the safety of your valuable data is crucial. To safeguard this data using MySQL, implementing a robust backup strategy is essential. For this, we have mentioned ten important things to consider while dealing with MySQL backups. Let’s learn them in detail below. 10 Things You Must Do While Backing Up…
Sometimes, you have to be the bad guy. Be resistant to change. Here’s a story about how stubbornness pays off. As we’ve written about before A 4 letter word divides Dev & Ops. A True Story of Resistance I had one experience working as the primary MySQL DBA for an internet startup. Turns out they had…
In the constantly evolving world of cloud computing, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has established itself as a pioneer. It is now offering businesses unparalleled levels of performance and scalability. Among the many features and services provided by AWS, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) and Elastic Block Storage (EBS) stand out as the leader in achieving…
Recently at Surge 2011, the annual conference on scalability and performance, Google’s CIO Ben Fried gave an illuminating keynote address. His main insight was that generalists are the people that will lead engineering teams in successfully scaling the web. In a world where the badge of Specialist or Expert is prized, this was a refreshing perspective from an…
It seems like all I hear these days is Redshift, Redshift, Redshift! I met up with a recruiter today. We talked about this & that. The usual. Then when he came to the topic of technology he said, “Yeah, it seems as though suddenly everybody is looking for Redshift & Snowflake” As I blogged about…
Don’t believe me that you’re headed for the cliff? Here is the explanation why your cloud is speeding for a scalability cliff. A Startup Scales Up to No Avail Towards the end of 2012, I worked with an internet startup in the online education space. Their web application was not unusual, built in PHP and…
AWS SQL and Azure SQL server are excellent cloud services, with more than 99.9% availability, competitive pay-as-you-go pricing strategies, and more. Yet, they have certain limitations in scalability, integration, and security. So, choosing one can be tough if you’re just starting out. A comparison of SQL server on AWS vs Azure When comparing SQL servers…