In today's fast-paced digital landscape, the complexity of our data infrastructure is exploding. Teams embrace polyglot persistence, leveraging different databases—SQL, NoSQL, Graph—for the specific needs of their microservices. While this approach provides flexibility and performance, it introduces a significant challenge: how do you manage, query, and scale this sprawling, distributed collection of data resources without drowning in operational overhead?
The traditional methods of manual configuration, disparate dashboards, and custom one-off scripts are no longer sustainable. They are slow, error-prone, and a major bottleneck to innovation.
What if we could treat our infrastructure services the same way we treat our application code? What if we could define, version, automate, and compose them into powerful workflows? This is the core idea behind a transformative paradigm shift: Services as Software. And databases.do is leading this revolution for data infrastructure.
Think about the typical process for managing multiple databases. You might:
This manual approach is not just inefficient; it's risky. It creates silos, slows down development teams, and makes scaling a monumental task. The core problem is that services are treated as static, manually-configured black boxes.
The "Services as Software" model flips this script entirely. It treats essential services—like databases, message queues, or storage—as programmable, software-defined components. By representing these services as code, you unlock the same powerful practices that govern modern software development:
This is where databases.do comes in. It's an agentic workflow platform built on this principle, allowing you to finally bring the power of code to your entire data estate.
databases.do provides a single, powerful API to provision, query, and scale distributed databases. It allows you to transform complex data operations into simple, repeatable workflows, all managed as code.
Instead of wrestling with multiple UIs and CLIs, you interact with a unified API that abstracts away the underlying complexity. This focus on database management as a programmatic function is a game-changer for developers and DevOps teams.
A key distinction to understand is the difference between a database and databases. While managing a single database.do instance is powerful, the real magic happens when you manage the entire collection. databases.do is designed for managing collections of data resources, enabling you to perform operations across multiple databases at once.
Imagine needing to apply a critical security patch to all your production PostgreSQL instances. With databases.do, this becomes a simple, automated workflow, not a frantic, manual fire drill.
Talk is cheap; let's see the code. The power of database as code is its simplicity and clarity. With the .do SDK, you can discover every database in your project with just a few lines of TypeScript.
import { databases } from '@do/sdk';
// List all databases within your project
async function listAllDatabases() {
try {
const allDbs = await databases.list();
console.log('Available Databases:', allDbs);
return allDbs;
} catch (error) {
console.error('Failed to retrieve databases:', error);
}
}
listAllDatabases();
This simple function replaces hours of manual inventory tracking. It's your single source of truth, accessible through a clean API access layer. This is the foundation for building more complex automation, from provisioning new development environments to scaling your production resources on demand.
Modern applications aren't built on a single database technology, and your management platform shouldn't be either. The .do platform is designed to be extensible. By integrating the appropriate drivers, you can manage a wide variety of data resources, including:
This flexibility ensures you can standardize your management workflows without sacrificing the ability to use the best database for the job.
Ready to stop managing infrastructure and start engineering it? Transforming your data operations into simple, repeatable workflows is straightforward.
The era of manual, click-driven infrastructure management is coming to an end. The "Services as Software" paradigm is revolutionizing how we build and operate complex systems. By treating data infrastructure as code, databases.do empowers teams to move faster, reduce risk, and build more resilient applications.
It's time to manage your data resources with the same agility and precision you apply to your application code. Your data, finally managed as code.