Transforming Your DBA Team Into a DBRE/SRE One!
summary
Advice is concrete: restructure DBAs into tiers—DBRE, senior DBRE, one SME, architect—start flat and one MySQL SME for 5,000 servers to avoid fragmentation; skip SMEs at launch and keep ~20% as entry DBREs. Automate builds and restores—six lines of Terraform builds a DB in four hours replaces a three‑week manual process. Implement metric sharing (dashboards in CloudWatch), automated heals like AWS Lambda auto‑grows filesystem, test backups, and use Jenkins for controlled privileged actions.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 1:01Whats on the menu?
- 5:23Structuring a DBRE Team - Defining Roles Everyone should have main and secondary technoly they support
- 30:12DBRE Core Focuses
- 40:10Reporting vs Privacy
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