Alberto and Matt discuss Database Reliability Engineering at GitLab

Q&A session between Alberto Ramos (Engineering Manager, Reliability) and Matt Allen (Sr. Technical Recruiter) discussing DBRE roles at GitLab. For more information, please visit our Job Family page: about.gitlab.com/job-families...

[@ashifshaikh2763]

How do you handle query optimization in your organization?

[@kujaz2]

what the heck does he mean by "dog footing", "dock fooding", ... whatever?

[@GitLabUnfiltered]

Hey @kujaz2 He's talking about "Dog Fooding". It basically means using your own product. There's more information about what that means at GitLab in our handbook about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/product-processes/#dogfood-everything