dbsmasher corner
Thoughts, stories and ideas
On leadership vs management
This post is a flight of ideas. Blame Charity getting my brain going
Chef audit mode
I have spoken before about how important it is for me and my team to make as many parts of the database stack match our larger infrastructure. One of the most crucial ways to do this is to make sure that not only are we deploying and managing databases using...
On being on call
In case you don’t follow SysAdvent (in which case, why?? you are missing out on great content every year!), the post on December 6th this year was by Alice Goldfuss. I have tweeted a link to that post that day and since then my tweet has been quoted, responded to...
Capacity planning for databases
Note: This is inspired by Julia Evans’ recent post about ….capacity planning 😌
2015 in review...2016 here I come
This post is inspired by quite a few great posts like this one by Ryn Daniels and Lara Hogan