https://vonng.com/en/tags/dba/Recent content in DBA on VonngHugo -- gohugo.ioenrh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng)rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng)© 2025 Ruohang FengSun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://vonng.com/en/ai/dba-agent-body/Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng)https://vonng.com/en/ai/dba-agent-body/Today’s models are smart enough. What they lack is a body: a deterministic runtime that is observable, controllable, and reversible. Pigsty is evolving from a PostgreSQL distribution into an Agent Runtime, giving DBA and Dev Agents the operational reach and context they need to enter real production environments.https://vonng.com/en/db/ai-dba-job/Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng)https://vonng.com/en/db/ai-dba-job/Who will be revolutionized first - OLTP or OLAP? Integration vs specialization, how to choose? Where will DBAs go in the AI era? Feng’s views from the HOW 2025 conference roundtable, organized and published.https://vonng.com/en/cloud/dba-vs-rds/Fri, 02 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng)https://vonng.com/en/cloud/dba-vs-rds/Two days ago, the ninth episode of Open-Source Talks had the theme “Will DBAs Be Eliminated by Cloud?” As the host, I restrained myself from jumping into the debate throughout, so I’m writing this article to discuss this question: Will DBAs be eliminated by cloud?https://vonng.com/en/cloud/no-dba-bullshit/Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng)https://vonng.com/en/cloud/no-dba-bullshit/Guo Degang has a comedy routine: “Say I tell a rocket scientist, your rocket is no good, the fuel is wrong. I think it should burn wood, better yet coal, and it has to be premium coal, not washed coal. If that scientist takes me seriously, he loses.”https://vonng.com/en/cloud/drop-rds/Tue, 10 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng)https://vonng.com/en/cloud/drop-rds/I recently witnessed a live cloud database drop-and-run incident. This article discusses how to handle accidentally deleted data when using PostgreSQL in production environments.https://vonng.com/en/cloud/is-dba-good-job/Tue, 10 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng)https://vonng.com/en/cloud/is-dba-good-job/Ant Financial had a self-deprecating joke: besides regulation, only DBAs could bring down Alipay. Although DBA sounds like a profession with glorious history and dim prospects, who knows if it might become trendy again after a few terrifying major cloud database incidents?