Key principle: Database  engineering and systems engineering can work together

Data engineering and SRE , i.e applying SRE to database engineering

Database reliability  engineering is a discipline

Large scale systems are binary i.e if you put a large job in production you get immediate feedback – binary nature.   If it’s in production it works!

Key skills (although to be effective experience of a wide range of database platforms helps – relational & non-relational)

> coding

> algorithms

> analysing complex problems

> large scale system design and problems of scale

Typical – although very broad definition of types of work

> infrastructure

> optimize systems

> automation

 

Author: Rambler