Tag Archives: DevOps

Working Better Under Pressure

Posted on April 17, 2026 by way0utwest

One of my colleagues wrote a great post about DBAs and developers, about how a DBA’s pushback on bad code isn’t to be difficult, it’s because they can see the future. I never thought of myself as a modern-day Nostradamus, … Continue reading →

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Multiple Deployment Processes

Posted on March 13, 2026 by way0utwest

We had a Simple Talks podcast recently where we discussed roll forward vs roll back. You can watch the episode and listen to our thoughts, but one interesting place was when we talked about deployments. Grant mentioned that he deployed … Continue reading →

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A Full Shutdown

Posted on March 11, 2026 by way0utwest

I have the opportunity to work with a variety of customers on their database systems, often with the focus on how they can build and deploy changes to their databases. Often, they have a process around how and when they … Continue reading →

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Rolling Back a Broken Release

Posted on February 23, 2026 by way0utwest

We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward or back from the point when you discover a problem. You can watch the episode and see what you think, but one thing that Pat asked … Continue reading →

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