Just over one month to go until SREday Cologne. Slides ready, I am currently planning my short trip to one of my favorite cities in Germany to share some tips on running MySQL workloads on managed databases. As well as some mistakes I’ve made over the past decade that you can hopefully avoid. See you soon in Cologne!

Things Fall Apart: Navigating Managed Databases for Over a Decade as a Non-DBA

Learn to navigate database benchmarks wisely! From crashing managed instances to skyrocketing storage costs, I’ll share hard-earned lessons from a decade of managing production databases on the cloud without DBA expertise.

I triggered storage autoscaling during maintenance, crashed my first managed instance on ARM due to a suboptimal configuration, and ran out of IOPS multiple times. While attempting to autosmart the automated backups, my storage costs skyrocketed, surpassing any other expenses associated with the instance. Sometimes things fall apart, and sometimes I succeed. I experimented with various methods to optimize the storage of fragmented tables. Here are a few lessons from managing dozens of production databases for over a decade, without DBA expertise.