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The Present and Future of Data Management Roles

In January 2015, I wrote about the future of professional database administrators (DBAs) in a three-part series of articles for Database Trends & Applications magazine. Back then I predicted we would see strong growth in DBA salaries because of the acute and persistent shortage of talent, very little means of training new DBAs, and a median age of DBAs creeping closer to retirement age with each passing year.

Performance optimization techniques in time series databases: strings interning

VictoriaMetrics is an open-source time-series database (TSDB) written in Go, and I’ve had the pleasure of working on it for the past couple of years. TSDBs have stringent performance requirements, and building VictoriaMetrics has taught me a thing or two about optimization. In this blog post, I’ll share some of the performance tips I’ve learned during my time at VictoriaMetrics.

A guide to PostgreSQL documentation and useful resources | PostgreSQL 101

Join Ryan Booz, PostgreSQL Advocate at Redgate, and Grant Fritchey, Microsoft Data Platform MVP, and discover: How to navigate PostgreSQL documentation The essential things you need to know about PostgreSQL documentation Other useful learning resources to help make your journey to using PostgreSQL easier.

Why PostgreSQL in 2023 | PostgreSQL 101

PostgreSQL has risen to be the dominant choice for new projects and cost-saving migrations in an increasingly cloud-first, price-conscious world. Join Ryan Booz, PostgreSQL Advocate at Redgate, in the first of a series of PostgreSQL 101 webinars as he talks through the the history of PostgreSQL, the different PostgreSQL variants and the reasons behind the increasing popularity of PostgreSQL.

The Journey Towards PostgreSQL - Tips and Lessons | PostgreSQL 101

Grant Fritchey, Microsoft Data Platform MVP, started working with SQL Server in 1995 but more recently has needed to support and understand PostgreSQL. In this webinar, he will go on a deeper dive into the PostgreSQL database and will share top tips from his own learning journey.

How we upgraded to MySQL 8 in Grafana Cloud

Starting around June this year, we upgraded our Grafana databases in Grafana Cloud from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8, due to MySQL 5.7 reaching end-of-life in October. This project involved tens of thousands of customer databases across dozens of MySQL database servers, multiple cloud providers, and many Kubernetes clusters.