As a DBA with my time constantly split between development and operations, my life (and my team’s) was made so much easier when we started focusing on making our admin tools more usable and thorough. But I’ve often felt that our lack of maturity in this realm is due to our small team size.
Can someone from a larger dev team speak to whether you still find yourself spending time building/improving admin tools like this?
Not sure how big your team is but IME the larger team only increases the need for admin tools and makes lots of ad hoc bash/SQL console sessions more dangerous.
Even at a small size (a dozen or even fewer devs) I recommend doing what it takes for anything besides true one-offs to go through admin tools.
In general, I find that office staff want to be able to solve their own problems and will appreciate you giving them the tools to do it.
Oooof. Guess I should count my blessings that the lack of bureaucracy in a smaller team means that I can spend time on admin tools when I see fit. Grass isn’t always greener
Can someone from a larger dev team speak to whether you still find yourself spending time building/improving admin tools like this?