Database Reliability Engineering ─ Designing and Operating Resilient Database Systems

If you’re an IT professional looking to broaden your knowledge of database administration, this practical book takes you through each component of site reliability and operations within the context of database engines. IT staffers with minimal database operations experience can use this knowledge as a foundation of the architecture and operations within a specific database.

This book uses open-source engines such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Cassandra as examples throughout.

Laine Campbell is a co-founder at Pythian, where she leads the open source database practice. She specializes in database architecture and operations, particularly MySQL and Cassandra. Laine founded and led PalominoDB, then Blackbird for 8 years, where her team of DBAs supported many of the most exciting database infrastructures in the industry. Before that, she designed, built and supported the Travelocity databases for 8 years with a remarkable team. She lives in Las Vegas, and travels extensively.

Charity Majors is a Production Engineering Manager working on Parse at Facebook, with over 10 years of experience running operations for some of the world's fastest-growing tech startups. Before Parse she built infrastructure and teams for a series of startups, including Linden Lab and Shopkick. She loves hard scaling problems of all kinds, both technical and cultural, but always seems to end up doing stuff with databases. Rants a lot about ops, devops, performance tuning and culture. Charity lives in San Francisco and is never, ever leaving.