From on-premises specialist to cloud DevOps generalist – the DBA role has absorbed every wave of infrastructure change. Cloud adds one genuinely new pressure: the monthly bill.
Evolution of the DBA
Category: Cloud
The cloud is built on standardisation, abstraction, and scale. It works because most workloads can be made to look the same.
Databases are the exception. Their performance, behaviour, and constraints are deeply tied to their underlying architecture – and those differences don’t disappear just because the infrastructure moved.
Databases Now Live In The Cloud
Gartner predicted 75% of databases in the cloud by 2022. The industry debate focused on migration – but not on the question that mattered most: what happens to performance?
Don’t Call It A Comeback
flashdba returns from retirement to ask the question nobody in the cloud conversation was asking: when 75% of databases move to the cloud, what actually happens to performance?
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