The Brave Little Database! by Alicja Raszkowska This is a story about the adventures of the Brave Little Database, who tirelessly handles incoming requests, indexes tables, manages its buffer pool, and works together with its replicas and a proxy server to deliver the best service it can. We’re going to accompany the hero as it tackles obstacles and learns to be more resilient. Alicja likes to learn by drawing things. They work on all things infrastructure and have a soft spot for data stores and metrics. Outside of tech, Alicja tirelessly covers everything in yarn and plays ukulele.