You’ll begin by exploring core operational concepts that DBREs need to master. Then you’ll examine a wide range of database persistence options, including how to implement key technologies to provide resilient, scalable, and performant data storage and retrieval. With a firm foundation in database reliability engineering, you’ll be ready to dive into the architecture and operations of any modern database.
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Laine Campbell is a co-founder at Pythian, where she leads the open source database practice. She specializes in database architecture and operations, particularly MySQL and Cassandra. Laine founded and led PalominoDB, then Blackbird for 8 years, where her team of DBAs supported many of the most exciting database infrastructures in the industry. Before that, she designed, built and supported the Travelocity databases for 8 years with a remarkable team. She lives in Las Vegas, and travels extensively.
Charity Majors is a Production Engineering Manager working on Parse at Facebook, with over 10 years of experience running operations for some of the world's fastest-growing tech startups. Before Parse she built infrastructure and teams for a series of startups, including Linden Lab and Shopkick. She loves hard scaling problems of all kinds, both technical and cultural, but always seems to end up doing stuff with databases. Rants a lot about ops, devops, performance tuning and culture. Charity lives in San Francisco and is never, ever leaving.