New Release: The Gorilla Guide to… DBOps: Bringing IT Operations and Database Professionals Together, Express Edition!
Are you curious about what the acronym DBOps means? Well, then you need to pick up the latest release in the Gorilla Guide library of titles, The Gorilla Guide To…® DBOps. By the time you’re finished reading this book, you’ll have a solid grasp on how your operations can be improved by implementing DBOps. You’ll also learn about products you can use to help get you there.
The book explains how DBOps can bring IT operations and database professionals together to streamline and improve your business operations. Chapter 1 lays the groundwork for DBOps and how to manage risk for database deployments. Chapter 2 takes a close look at query performance in databases, providing key insights into improving user experience and query processing times. Finally, Chapter 3 explores the ins and outs of combining continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) methods with database deployments, based on agile frameworks as they apply to application builds.
Because your database is the basis for your applications, it can be more challenging than working with your application tier. This is especially true when it comes to CI/CD, since application code is generally considered safe to deploy. You can easily do A/B testing while automatically routing traffic away from a problematic instance of your web tier. Because web and application servers are stateless, rollback is an easy process.
Databases, on the other hand, present more difficulties. Even if you’ve designed a horizontally scalable data model sharded across multiple databases, for example, you might encounter performance problems on only one of your shards due to differences in data distributions (see Figure 1). It’s issues like this, among others, that DBOps helps overcome. Implementing proper DBOps processes will ultimately result in better applications, as the silos are broken down between IT and DBAs and they work together on solutions. That’s the bottom line, isn’t it?
Inside the Guide
Gorilla Guides make learning and discovery approachable and easy, and they take the guesswork out of navigating complicated IT technologies. Written by an industry expert, and brought to you by Solarwinds, this resource is packed full of trusted information about how DBOps works to bring faster and better database schema and application code to your organization, following the CI/CD paradigm.
Download the book and learn all about:
- Optimizing DB Query Performance
- Integrating CI/CD Into DB Development
- Implementing Automated Testing for DB Changes
Table of Contents
Introduction: Introducing a New Acronym: DBOps
Chapter 1: Find Peace of Mind In Your Database Deployments
- Risks of Database Deployments
- Monitoring Deployments
Chapter 2: Understanding Your Query Performance
- Comprehending Database Performance
- Understanding Execution Plans
Chapter 3: Integrating CI/CD With Your Database Deployments
- What Is Database Continuous Integration and Delivery?
- Rollbacks
- Get Started With SolarWinds DPM
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About the Author
Joey D’Antoni has over a decade of IT experience at Fortune 500 companies and enterprise businesses, as well as expert certifications from Microsoft and virtualization software providers. He is considered a thought leader in cross-platform IT. He routinely works with a wide variety of data platforms including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Hadoop, etc. and possesses extensive experience in cloud design and architecture, specifically focused on hybrid cloud models. Joey holds a BS in Computer Information Systems from Louisiana Tech and an MBA from North Carolina State University.
About SolarWinds
SolarWinds is a leading provider of powerful, affordable IT management software. Our products give organizations worldwide—regardless of type, size, or complexity—the power to monitor, manage, and secure their IT infrastructures, wherever they are located. We continuously engage with IT service and operations professionals to understand the challenges they face in maintaining high-performing, highly available IT infrastructures and applications. The insights we gain from them allow us to solve well-understood IT management challenges in the ways technology professionals want them solved. This focus on the user and commitment to excellence in end-to-end hybrid IT management has established SolarWinds as a worldwide leader in solutions for network and IT service management, application performance, and managed services.
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