Get to know our Couchbase Community – Meet Michael Hirschberg

                

Congratulations to our newest member of the Couchbase Champion team! Meet Michael Hirschberg.

Cuéntanos sobre ti y qué haces en tu rol diario?

I am a senior system engineer, working for Amadeus for the last eight years.

My responsibilities include:

• Automating cluster deployment/maintenance

• Providing an API to the internal tools (to issue commands like a rebalance from the internal ops manager framework)

• Taking     care of the PCI audit   

• Cluster sizing

• Maintaining the Couchbase environment (like patching)

• Normal daily business (like resolving incidents and problems)

¿Dónde tienes tu sede y qué te gusta hacer en tu tiempo libre?

I’m based in Erding, Bavaria. In my spare time I like to listen to music on vinyl and play music with others, when possible.

¿Qué te hizo elegir Couchbase?

Amadeus started to look at Couchbase in 2012 because a replacement for the internal memcached farms was urgently needed.

¿Qué has logrado usando Couchbase?

We are currently migrating our biggest memcached/MySQL farm to Couchbase. So far, three out of seven application peaks have been migrated (25% writes, 45% reads) with no issues – everything runs as expected.

Couchbase is also used in many other projects (like R-Box ), but the above is the largest (once completely migrated, it’s going to be 550B requests/day, ~30% writes).

¿Qué característica de Couchbase usas y qué debería saber la gente al respecto?

Graceful failover! It allows me to easily automate rolling upgrades on low-traffic clusters.

I also like the new PAM integration + RBAC feature, disabling HTTP access to the UI, which helps a lot during our PCI-DSS audit.

Si pudieras pedir tres deseos para Couchbase, ¿cuáles serían?

– Diskless buckets! In some cases we just don’t need any persistency, but have no way to disable it.

– More useful log in the UI (for example, the audit log is not there).

– Last but not least, man pages for the cmd tools! An excellent example is the cbc-pillowfight man.

¿Cuál es tu libro o autor favorito y por qué?

Right now my favorite author is Andreas Eschbach. He tells interesting stories and raises important philosophical questions. His book, “Lord of All Things,” is a good example.