Charity Majors • 10/2/2016

The Accidental DBA

The article analyzes a public post-mortem of a MongoDB outage, criticizing the engineering team's risky upgrade process and lack of database administration fundamentals. It introduces the concept of the 'accidental DBA'—software engineers managing data without deep expertise—and advocates for a more responsible approach to stateful services. The author also mentions co-writing a book titled 'Database Reliability Engineering' aimed at generalist engineers.

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#mongodb #Data Loss #Database Administration