As DevOps engineers, our goal is to create systems that perform seamlessly in production - and this extends beyond application code to include our databases! Imagine the peace of mind that comes with implementing changes confidently, deploying without stress, and relying on automated safeguards to ensure that updates to your database or business logic don’t impact your production environment. Interested in learning how to achieve this? Read on!
Make Databases Fast
In today’s fast-paced development landscape, deploying code multiple times a day while managing a myriad of tasks has become the norm. Modern applications often span dozens of clusters and interact with hundreds of databases, especially on multi-tenant platforms where tailored solutions are the standard. With such complexity, it’s no wonder that maintaining seamless operations can feel like a daunting challenge.
Ensuring continuous database reliability is a game-changer for building resilient and scalable services. It guarantees that designs perform effectively in production and adapt effortlessly to growing customer demands. Traditional load testing, while useful, is increasingly rare due to the difficulties of creation and upkeep. Even when load tests are available, they often come too late in the pipeline and take too long to deliver results. To accelerate development and maintain high standards, we need tools that provide immediate feedback on queries and schema changes, enabling scalability checks earlier in the development cycle.
Unfortunately, most industry-standard solutions fall short of these needs. Unit tests, for example, confirm the correctness of queries - ensuring that data is read and written accurately - but fail to address performance concerns. They won’t detect slow joins, N+1 queries, or missing indexes. Similarly, schema deployment tools cannot often assess crucial factors like migration speed, data loss risks, or the impact of schema changes. They don’t alert you to costly operations like full table rewrites or lengthy migrations that could cripple production environments.
Enter Metis - a solution designed to empower DevOps engineers and development teams. With Metis, you can validate the correctness of your designs, test queries, and evaluate schema migrations before committing changes to the repository. Curious to learn more about how Metis can transform your workflow? Keep reading to uncover its full potential.
Metis Takes Care of Your Databases
Metis provides a comprehensive set of features, including powerful database guardrails that integrate seamlessly into your development workflow and CI/CD pipelines. By automatically validating queries, schema migrations, and database interactions, Metis ensures your changes are production-ready with confidence.
With Metis integrated, every query you write is automatically evaluated. For instance, as you run unit tests that involve database interactions, Metis checks whether those queries will scale efficiently in a production environment. What’s more, this validation occurs even before you commit your code, offering peace of mind and streamlining the development process.
Metis actively monitors your queries, analyzes their execution plans, and identifies opportunities for optimization. It can simulate query performance on a production database, providing alerts if a query that runs smoothly in your local environment might face challenges in production. This analysis happens in real-time as you write your code, ensuring proactive feedback.
Beyond query evaluation, Metis also reviews your schema changes. It assesses the database modification code, ensuring migrations are efficient and pinpointing potential risks before they impact your systems.
Metis gives you the confidence that your changes are safe and deployment-ready. It integrates effortlessly with your CI/CD pipelines, working seamlessly with popular tools like GitHub Actions. This integration enables automatic performance and schema migration checks, simplifying and enhancing your development workflow.
Metis seamlessly integrates into your pipelines, acting as a CI/CD solution designed specifically for databases. It validates your design's accuracy in real time, removing the need to rely on lengthy load tests. This allows you to receive instant feedback as you implement changes, streamlining your workflow.
Use Metis and Move Fast
DevOps engineers face a variety of challenges, and many existing tools fail to fully address them. No other solution guarantees that queries will perform optimally in production or if schema migrations won't lead to expensive table rewrites. Metis fills this gap by validating your designs, automatically reviewing queries and schema migrations, and giving you the assurance to make and deploy changes confidently. By integrating database guardrails directly into your GitOps workflow, Metis empowers you to achieve true database reliability.
