Automation is a necessity and a prerequisite for growth, but going through it is a time-consuming and costly process. Therefore, before going down this path, it would be useful to establish your resource limits, whether in money, tools, or expertise.

Kristian Köhntopp, the principal systems engineer at Booking.com, joined us again on this episode of Sovereign DBaaS Decoded. In Part 1 of our conversation with Kristian, he walked us through building and running a robust database infrastructure with thousands of instances and hundreds of hierarchies. In this episode, Kristian explains why every enterprise should automate its database and how long it takes to put into effect. However, he also explains that automation is a journey, not a destination. It’s a never-ending game, and each enterprise must stay up to date with regulatory, compliance, or tooling changes, to ensure their databases always meet business objectives.