On today’s Datanauts episode we look at the changing world of Ops. We talk about what Ops means (Operations, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, etc.), though one common thread is that everyone in the organization has responsibility for delivering a quality product.

We also discuss the skill sets needed for today’s operations engineers, hiring issues, and concepts such as error budgets that are designed to encourage more risk-taking in an organization.

Our guest is Charity Majors, cofounder and CEO of Honeycomb, and formerly a production engineering manager at Facebook. You can find her on Twitter and check out her blog Charity.WTF.

We also get into databases and database reliability engineering (which Charity wrote a book about), including differences between MySQL and PostGres, as well as how MongoDB has evovled.

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Show Links:

Hiring A Tech Ops Team – Video

Database Reliability Engineering – O’Reilly

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Database Needs – Presentation

Upgrading databases: without losing your data, your perf, or your mind – Presentation

DevOps Vs. SRE: Delayed Coverage Of The Dumbest War – Charity.WTF

The Accidental DBA – Charity.WTF