Description

• [00:30] Matthew's First Monitoring Tool was.....
• [02:08] 11 years (and counting) on-call!
• [07:40] That Time Storing A Password In Cleartext Saved The Day
• [12:29] Unwinding Off Call & Signs of Burnout
• [17:13] Responding To A Customer's Malicious Insider Incident
• [19:32] What app devs need to know about monitoring databases
• [28:32] Has database monitoring gotten better over time?
• [32:15] Operating DBs in the time of Kubernetes
• [34:44] Wrap Up 

Paige chats with Matthew Sanabria, Staff SRE at Cockroach Labs, about memorable moments from his 11 years on-call, the warning signs of burnout, and what developers and operators can do for each other to improve database observability for everyone!

Find Matthew

• Personal Site https://matthewsanabria.dev/
• Twitter https://twitter.com/sudomateo
• Mastodon https://mastodon.online/@sudomateo@mastodon.online
• Cockroach Labs https://www.cockroachlabs.com/
• Platform Engineering New York (PENY) Meetup https://www.meetup.com/platform-engineering-new-york/

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