In this article, Kevin Kline introduces The High-Performance DBA webcast series, drawing on insights from our recent State of Database Report to explain why DBA burnout is rising and how teams can move beyond constant reactivity.
Over the past 15 years, Agile and DevOps have accelerated application delivery, enabling faster, more reliable releases. Yet the database layer often remains a blind spot for observability and performance monitoring.
In this article, Kevin Kline shows why closing the database observability gap is critical to improving performance, efficiency, and resilience for DBAs, developers, and the businesses that depend on their data.
This series aims to break down the technical terms into an understandable format. If you missed the first entry in this series, check out What Even Is… The Cloud? This time, we’re going to dive into Observability.
Every profession has its jargon that can seem confusing at first, including technology. Often, the meaning of the words we use every day can be misinterpreted or misunderstood due to any number of reasons. Sometimes marketing conflates terms, or an incorrect understanding can be inferred from poor context. And, often, it’s just assumed knowledge.
Tech Evangelist Chrystal Taylor has seen a few things in her career, so we’ve asked her to kick off this new series that tackles the issues that matter: What are the IT buzzwords that bug her the most, and how can we get past them to the really good stuff?
