Power Hour, Managing Databases at Scale – Peter Zaitsev
summary
Three vendors give concrete stances: embrace open source to avoid vendor lock in, limit database sprawl to a controlled set, and invest in automation for self-healing and actionable alerting. Tools shown include Percona Monitoring Management (PMM) and Kubernetes operators to reduce toil. A benchmark claim shows Postgres 13 tuned vs default gives a huge performance gap. Expect guidance on memory working sets, storage outlier risks like a one-in-a-million I/O stall, and practical scaling tradeoffs.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 0:03Managing Databases at Scale
- 10:21PostgreSQL with PEV
- 11:15What to do about them?
- 11:45Do not Run with Defaults
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