Managing projects is hard. We need to deal with the complexity of the domain, the intricacies of the business requirements, and difficulties of the software development. Wouldn’t it be great if we could feel that our team is confident when changing the code? Would you like to have database issues fixed automatically or avoid them entirely? Read on to learn how to have all of that.
What Teams Struggle With
Teams want to achieve continuous database reliability. They want to know their designs work well in production, their solutions scale properly, and their code changes are safe to be deployed. They take many measures to guarantee high quality, including tests of any kind, code reviews, automated CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring of all the components.
Unfortunately, this often fails. Tests do not capture issues around databases well enough. One reason for that is that these tests often focus on the correctness of what developers read and write, disregarding the performance aspects entirely. While the solution processes data correctly, it does it way too slow for the production requirements which leads to failures in production and decreased customer experiences.
Load tests pose problems on their own. They are hard to write and maintain, expensive to execute, and they happen far too late in the pipeline. When load tests find issues, it’s already after the code has been reviewed and merged. This requires developers to go back to their whiteboards to fix the issues.
Yet another thing is team culture and processes. Teams are often detached from each other and don’t own their databases. If you want your team to be a true owner, you need to change the way how teams interact within your organization. You need to let teams own their stuff end-to-end, including code changes, deployments, monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting. This lets the teams work independently and cut their slow and synchronous communication.
Last but not least, developers often lack proper tools. This leads them to do tons of manual work when troubleshooting issues as they need to obtain logs manually, connect the dots from many parts of the SDLC, and reason about what went wrong. This takes time and is cumbersome, especially when the developers need to debug issues under time pressure. However, with good tools, developers can avoid all this hassle because the database issues are fixed automatically. You can avoid all the problems!
Product management is much easier when your team is capable of owning their databases and doesn’t spend time on troubleshooting. You need to limit their communication with other teams, give them tools to automatically solve database problems, and have solutions that identify issues much earlier in the development process. Read on to learn how Metis provides all of that and lets you achieve database reliability.
Stop Worrying About Your Team
Metis integrates with your developers’ programming flow and your CI/CD pipelines to automatically check queries, schema migrations, and how developers interact with databases. You get automated checks of all our queries if they will scale well in production. Developers don’t even need to commit to the repository.
Metis captures queries, analyzes their execution plans, and shows what to fix. It can project the queries onto the production database to tell if they’re going to work fast enough in production. All of that is just in time when developers write their code.
Metis integrates with CI/CD pipelines. This is like CI/CD for databases. This way, developers can feel confident their changes are safe to go to production. They won’t cause performance issues, inefficient designs, or data loss. Metis can assert developers’ design is correct. Teams don’t need to wait until the load tests are complete.
Metis provides database observability around everything that might affect your databases. This includes database-oriented metrics and insights for tables, schemas, indexes, and much more:
Metis uses AI to generate code improvements, verifies them in production, and then gives your team insights that are confirmed to improve performance:
Let Your Team Shine and Your Product Grow
Developers face many challenges. This impacts product management and makes growth harder. Fortunately, many things can be solved with Metis. Your teams can deploy reliably thanks to Metis’ insights around queries, performance, and schema migrations. Metis protects your database from data loss and unnecessary rollbacks. You can feel confident that your team owns their databases end-to-end, and you can focus on product management.
