MySQL performance

Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

Silvia Botros joins Justin & Autumn for a phenomenal conversation about databases, her career path & the ins/outs of writing High Performance MySQL.

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Featuring:

• Silvia Botros – Mastodon, LinkedIn, Website
• Justin Garrison – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Autumn Nash – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• High Performance MySQL, 4th Edition [Book]
• dbsmasher corner
• Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track
• The Manager’s Path [Book]

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Chapters

1. This is Ship It! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Cronitor (00:00:53)

https://cronitor.io

3. The opener (00:03:52)

4. Silvia's focus (00:06:39)

5. A senior architect's scope (00:07:04)

6. Silvia's background (00:07:51)

7. Need for DBREs (00:14:07)

8. Forming DB teams (00:15:12)

9. The state of DBs (00:20:02)

10. Sponsor: Bitwarden (00:26:33)

https://bitwarden.com/secrets

11. High performance MySQL (00:28:59)

12. Learning as you write (00:36:07)

13. Job identity (00:39:45)

14. Fixing burnout? (00:42:45)

15. Build a team without people management (00:44:28)

16. Build a network (00:47:04)

17. When to not use MySQL (00:52:18)

18. Socials (00:54:50)

19. Sponsor: Porkbun (00:56:30)

https://porkbun.com/ShipIt24

20. The closer (00:58:30)

21. What the DB (00:58:37)

22. Outro (01:08:18)