Now that the Sysops Squad application was successfully broken into separately deployed domain services, Addison and Austen both realized that it was time to start thinking about breaking apart the monolithic Sysops Squad database. Addison agreed to start this effort, while Austen began to work on enhancing the CI/CD deployment pipeline. Addison met with Dana, the Sysops Squad data architect, and also Devon, one of the DBAs supporting the Penultimate Electronics databases.
“I’d like your opinions on how we might go about breaking up the Sysops Squad database,” said Addison.
“Wait a minute,” said Dana. “Who said anything about breaking apart the database?”
“Addison and I agreed last week that we needed to break up the Sysops Squad database,” said Devon. “As you know, the Sysops Squad application has been going through a major overhaul, and breaking apart the data is part of that overhaul.”
“I think the monolithic database is just fine,” said Dana. “I see no reason why it should be broken apart. Unless you can convince me otherwise, I’m not going to budge on this issue. Besides, do you know how hard it would be to break apart that database?”
“Of course it will be difficult,” said Devon, “but I know of a five-step process leveraging what are known as data domains that would work really well on this database. That way, we can even start investigating using different kinds of databases for certain parts of the application, ...
