Gateway to Hell – Network Basics for DBAs, DEVs and DevOps

Gateway to Hell – Network Basics for DBAs, DEVs and DevOps

New environments are increasingly based on a software-defined data center, both on-premises and in the cloud. However, more conventional approaches also require database administrators or DevOps teams to understand and handle the network stack.

Knowledge of this basic technology is more relevant today than ever before – even if, at its core, it is mostly a creation of the 1980s and 90s.

With a twinkle in our eye, we answer the following questions, among others:
– What’s so great about the Classless Society?
– What does a salami pizza have to do with network technology?
– If Superman likes supernetting, who does subnetting?
– How do nuclear weapons affect network design?
– If my routes come from the GPS, what do I need a router for?
– Who has DNS in their DNA?

We would like to invite all DBAs, developers and DevOperators to rediscover the basics of network technology with us. Everything seen through the practical eyes of experienced, strictly practice-oriented database experts.

The lecture is therefore aimed at experienced IT professionals who (only) have little to do with network technology in their day-to-day work and would like to widen their view.

About Martin

Being in IT business as a specialist for Linux, Martin Klier has been involved in the administration of Oracle Databases for about fifteen years now. The integration of large Oracle-based high-availability solutions (MAA) with RAC and Data Guard were the first challenges. In the last years, he largely moved into performance analysis and tuning of complex systems with dynamically changing load profiles.

Skeptical needs assessments, thorough architecture planning, decent system sizing, critical benchmarking and experienced load-focused system analysis are Martin’s formula to success in avoiding production downtime.

For years now, Martin can be found speaking on topics regarding “Oracle Core, Performance and High Availability” on various national and international conferences, like COLLABROATE (IOUG), Oracle Open World or DOAG Konferenz.

Martin frequently blogs about recent issues and their solutions at http://www.usn-it.de and is known on Twitter as @MartinKlierDBA.
Martin works a lot for the community, especially for the German Oracle Users Group “DOAG” and Linux User Group Mitterteich, and is an Oracle ACE Director (Database).