Sovereign DBaaS Decoded
Sovereign DBaaS Decoded is a podcast for IT leaders and implementers who want to understand data sovereignty and explore strategies to reliably scale their open-source database ops while maintaining control of how their data is managed and stored. In each episode, Severalnines CEO Vinay Joosery interviews industry leaders to uncover how organizations can implement open-source databases, cloud vendor-neutral environments, and tooling to address heavy workloads and mitigate business risks, including data compliance requirements.
Sovereign DBaaS Decoded
Booking.com Pt 2 - How Booking.com built their own Sovereign DBaaS at scale
Automation is a necessity and a prerequisite for growth, but building your own automation is a time-consuming and costly process. Therefore, before going down this path, it would be useful to establish your resource limits, whether in money, tools, or expertise.
Kristian Köhntopp, the principal systems engineer at Booking.com, joined us again on this episode of Sovereign DBaaS Decoded. Kristian explains why every enterprise should automate its database operations and how long it takes to put into effect. However, he also explains that automation is a journey, not a destination. It's a never-ending game, and each enterprise must stay up to date with regulatory, compliance, or tooling changes, and business needs, to ensure their databases always meet business objectives.
Guest-at-a-Glance
💡 Name: Kristian Köhntopp
💡 What he does: Kristian is the principal system engineer at Booking.com.
💡 Website: Booking.com
💡 Noteworthy: Kristian is an architect with years of experience in databases, Linux/Unix, data center planning and design, and security management systems in enterprise and startup environments. In his current role, Kristan focuses on database automation, provisioning a few thousand databases and a few hundred application hierarchies, and cloud migration.
💡 Where to find Kristian: LinkedIn
Find out more about Sovereign DBaaS at https://severalnines.com/sovereign-dbaas