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Teams and roles

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Where Does Your War Room Actually Live?

March 26, 2026

We asked database and SRE teams where they actually coordinate during a critical incident. 58% said chat, 33% said video, 8% still use a physical room, and nobody chose Jira. The result says something useful about the difference between tools built for tracking incidents and tools built for resolving them.

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What is a DBRE? The Database Reliability Engineering Role Explained

March 4, 2026

The term was coined in 2017. The role it describes emerged because the SRE revolution changed everything about how we run production systems, except databases. The Database Reliability Engineer exists to bring that same engineering discipline to the most critical layer of your stack.

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SIXTA has a CTO: Andrew Morgan

January 23, 2026

Andrew joins from Capital One and VividCortex, bringing six years of database monitoring experience. His path from Computer Science to Government to product management gives SIXTA an unusual perspective on building for operators.

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