When in February I received the email with the news that my talk was accepted at the pgcon it took me some time, and several espresso coffee, to realise that I wasn’t dreaming.
The pgcon email reached me few days after the same talk was accepted at the pycon nove, the Italy’s nationwide Python conference.
The Italian Pycon and the Pgcon are great conferences with amazing speakers and fantastic topics. The sole idea of giving my small contribution it makes me proud and a little scared, because I never talked to an audience composed mostly by fine developers.
It’s almost time for the pgconf 2016. This year the conference is in Tallinn the capital of Estonia. The conference is packed with super interesting talks which I really look forward to listen.
I’ll also present the talk life on a rollercoaster which tells the story of the last 4 years of a DBA(just guess who’s he :P) dealing with large large PostgreSQL installations.
I decided to make the talk with a narrative, and hopefully, entertaining form, in order to avoid to bore the audience to death.
After the summer break the Brighton PostgreSQL meetup restarts with the monthly technical talks.
This time is my round again. I’ll speak on how to scale the backup and recovery on large postgres installations.
Actually this is the talk I’ve submitted to the european pgconf.
I made the talk in a storytelling form in order to avoid to bore the audience to the death. The talk should be quite entertaining with explanation of the issues solved by the DBA over the years.
Thanks to the Ferrara’s University, departement of Engineering I’ll attend to another evening with PostgreSQL.
This time the event will be a seminary with all talks made by me.
The first talk will cover our beloved elephant’s history.
The second talk will look to the engine with particular attention to the MVCC and the memory manager.
The final talk will cover thebackup and recovery with pgdump and the streaming replication.
I’ll be at the University of Ferrara Saturday 9th of January for a PostgreSQL afternoon.
This is the confirmed schedule.
15:00 - Federico Campoli: PostgreSQL, the big the fast and the (NOSQL on) Acid
15:40 - Michele Finelli: The PostgreSQL’s transactional system
16:20 - Coffee break / general chat
16:40 - Federico Campoli: Streaming replication
17:30 - Federico Campoli: Query tuning in PostgreSQL
18:00 - Michele Finelli: An horror fairy tale: how we have lost a database
This second meetup went very well. The audience was interested and we had fun time thanks to the beer and pizzas offered alongside with the venue by our sponsor brandwatch.
Here a couple of pictures from the meetup.
The recording worked much better than the previous time, here’s the presentation’s video. We’ll meet again shortly for a nice beer. Next technical talk will be probably in January.
Three days to go for the next Brighton PostgreSQL meetup.
I’ll run a live hangout of the talk.
You can join the event there.
https://plus.google.com/events/cge4691km5qm8euj4erkcp7jecs
The record will become available on youtube shortly after the talk’s end.
November 27th at 19.00 GMT I’ll talk at theBrighton PostgreSQL meetup.
This time the group chosen the streaming replication as topic.
The talk will cover the PostgreSQL write ahead logging and the crash recovery process. The audience will learn how to setup a standby server using the streaming replication and how to troubleshoot it.
Please RSVP here.
I’m not dead yeat. Just hard days.
However, I’ll talk at the Skiff in the sunny Brighton about PostgreSQL, the big the fast and the (NOSQL on) ACID.
If you are around we should kick in the talk at 19.00 BST.
This talk is part of the SANE meetings happening on a monthly basis.
More informations about the Skiff there.
http://www.theskiff.org/ Here the slides
PostgreSQL, the big the fast and the (NOSQL on) Acid from Federico Campoli
