Matthew Skelton

Matthew Skelton has been building, deploying, and operating commercial software systems since 1998, and for several years he led a team that built and operated large database-driven websites for clients across many industry sectors. Co-founder and Principal Consultant at Skelton Thatcher Consulting Ltd, he specialises in helping organisations to adopt and sustain good practices for building and operating software systems: Continuous Delivery, DevOps, aspects of ITIL, and software operability. Matthew founded and leads the 700-member London Continuous Delivery meetup group, and instigated the first conference in Europe dedicated to Continuous Delivery, PIPELINE Conference. He also co-facilitates the popular Experience DevOps workshop series, and is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), and can be found on twitter as @matthewpskelton

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24 March 2016
24 March 2016

Database Version Control

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By placing under source control everything we need to describe any version of a database, we make it much easier to achieve consistent database builds and releases, to find out who made which changes and why, and to access all database support materials. Matthew Skelton explains how to make sure your version control system fully supports all phases of the database lifecycle, from governance, development, delivery and through to operations.… Read more
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16 March 2016
16 March 2016

Database Lifecycle Management for ETL Systems

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Few databases are self-contained. They take data from other sources, and publish them to downstream consumers of data. These ETL processes tend to grow in an unplanned organic way and so tand to cause trouble both in production and in deployment. Database Lifecycle Management systems allow all the teams to come together to ensure that ETL systems meet all requirements.… Read more
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09 March 2016
09 March 2016

Database Migrations: Modifying Existing Databases

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It should be simple to upgrade a database to a new version. It certainly can be, but if you need to preserve the existing data and you have made changes to the design to the tables then it can get complicated. If you are deploying changes to a heavily-used OLTP system on which an organization depends, then you need to understand, and be familiar with, the issues that can effect a database migration. Matthew Skelton explains the basic approaches.… Read more
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19 November 2014
19 November 2014

Continuous Delivery for Databases: Microservices, Team Structures, and Conway’s Law

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Having described some of the most common database deployability blockers, Matthew Skelton proposes a way to enable database continuous delivery that isn't as outlandish as it first appears. What can Conways Law and Microservices tell us about the future of databases and DBAs? Matthew shows us a glimpse.… Read more
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