Finn Turner

Finn Turner is a blind network enthusiast from Tauranga, New Zealand. You can usually find him with his head buried in some horrifyingly complex embedded Linux device, or trying to get his many pieces of network gear to work the way he wants them to. He usually spends his time coding; experimenting with Linux, embedded OSes and hardware; and finding novel ways to break things.

The Latest Posts Featuring Finn Turner

The High-Performance DBA: Breaking the Burnout Cycle in Modern Database Teams

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.

April 1, 2026

Database

The High-Performance DBA: Breaking the Burnout Cycle in Modern Database Teams

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Inside the Black Box: Bridging the Database Observability Gap

March 27, 2026

Database

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.

Data Tampering: The Quiet Threat

August 23, 2019

Monitoring and Observability Security

For decades, data tampering has been limited to relatively simple attacks, like data corruption (which is immediately noticeable) or “cooking the books” to hide embezzlement or other financial failings. Of late, however,…