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People Clusters: Shared Everything
By Eric Gross | July 16, 2007
The debate over shared nothing clusters vs. shared everything clusters will rage on for quite some time, but there should be no debate over the importance of people sharing the information in their heads. DBA’s manage voluminous amounts of information regarding the databases and infrastructures we are tasked with maintaining. It stands to reason that since we keep track of so much structured and semi-structured information that we need an information repository of some sort.
Luckily there is an entire class of products for teams that is geared to manage whatever information exists. A wiki is the first thing you need. Get one of those going, point your team at it, and you suddenly have a white board that everyone can always see, search, and browse. Now you’ll need to foster a level of participation and leadership in order to get everyone to create/update the content in their realm of expertise.
Topics: Organization