Database Reliability Engineering Quotes

“At this risk of being redundant, everything must be checked in to code. This includes the following: DB object migrations Triggers Procedures and functions Views Configurations Sample datasets for functionality Data cleanup scripts”
― Laine Campbell, Database Reliability Engineering: Designing and Operating Resilient Database Systems

“generally speaking, no one should be directly logging in to a database.”
― Laine Campbell, Database Reliability Engineering: Designing and Operating Resilient Database Systems

“Note that there is not a focus on eliminating failures. Systems without failures, although robust, become brittle and fragile. When failures occur, it is more likely that the teams responding will be unprepared, and this could dramatically increase the impact of the incident.”
― Laine Campbell, Database Reliability Engineering: Designing and Operating Resilient Database Systems