Thanks everybody for listening. And massive thanks to the PostgreSQL Europe staff for organising an amazing conference. The slides from my talk are available fordownload here. The open source replica system is on github https://github.com/the4thdoctor/pg_chameleon and hopefully Transferwise will also release the customised obfuscator soon.

The next week I will present at theFosdem PGDay 2017. This is the first time I travel to Brussels, the first time I visit the Fosdem and the presentation is almost brand new. I gave the same presentation at the last Brighton PostgreSQL meetup and this helped me to tailor the slides in a better way. During the talk I will explain about the first project I was assigned since I joined Transferwisein July 2016, where I helped the analyst to move a struggling MySQL database, used for the business intelligence, into a faster PostgreSQL 9.

As mentioned in the presentation I did at the Brighton PostgreSQL Meetup, pg chameleon is a commute project. In general I work on it when I travel. And thanks to the pgconf and other requirements I travelled a lot recently. This is the presentation’s recording (sorry the audio is suboptimal). So I was able to build a minimum viable product which seems to work properly. The alpha1 release is available for download and testing here

This is the recording of the pg_chameleon presentation I gave at the Brighton PostgreSQL Meetup The slides are available here http://www.slideshare.net/FedericoCampoli/pg-chameleon-mysql-to-postgresql-replica

When I first read about the systemd I truly believed the linux community would be able to improve this init system. Or at least to stop it if not good enough to be used as replacement for sysvinit. I was wrong. After a strong and poisonous debating Debian switched to systemd in Jessie. Several contributors left Debian and organised a fork called Devuan which is pushing for the init freedom.