Once upon a time FOSS was about Freedom. It was about exposing equality within source code. It allowed everyone equal rights and equal access to the technology they were using. An idea that if you were capable, you could fix code or pay someone to fix code. An ideology that there was something greater than yourself and that there was an inherent right built into what it is to be …
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What is good for the community is good for the company (profit is the reward)
As the PostgreSQL community continues down its path of world domination I can't help but wonder whether the various PostgreSQL companies are going to survive the changes. Once upon a time there was an undercurrent of understanding that what was good for the community was good for the company. Whatever company that may be. However, over the last few years it seems that has changed. It seems there is more …
PgConf.US: 2016 Kicking the donkey of PostgreSQL Replication
My slides from my presentation and PgConf.US 2016:
Spreading the conference love
The PostgreSQL community has a lot of conferences in the United States:
As Bruce Momjian pointed out in his excellent blog this is a good thing. It is true that in …
- PgUS United States PostgreSQL Conference
- Citus Data PgConfSV
- PgUS SCALE PgDay (which as of 2016 is really a conference within a conference)
- PostgresOpen
- EDB PostgresVision
As Bruce Momjian pointed out in his excellent blog this is a good thing. It is true that in …
You are my fellow community member
I attended the fantastically presented PgConf US 2016 last week. An amazing conference, my training was well attended, my talk was at capacity, the 20th Anniversary Party was phenomenal and the conference raised money for an excellent cause. There were over 435 attendees, giving our brothers and sisters at PgConf EU something to work for during their conference in November.
While attending the hallway track, I was talking to …
PostgreSQL, FOSS, SCALE, NYCPUG, SPI, LFNW and Ruby oh my!
Three weeks ago I was in Pasadena for SCALE 14. I had over 100 people in my room as I blistered the behind of PostgreSQL and how it handles backups. If you are interested in seeing my considered opinion I will also be training on the same topic at PgConf.US. I am also speaking on PostgreSQL Replication and finally, I was told that I am running the Lightning …
.Org developer meeting @ FOSDEM
A lot of people probably don't know this but PostgreSQL does plan. It is true that we take all contributions and they are reviewed based on their merit but it is also true that the community tries very hard to have a road map of some sort. Those road maps are created by the more prolific contributors in the community.
In the past there was a yearly Developer Meeting. That …
Scale 14x, PostgreSQL mini-conf, PgConf.US and NYCPUG
It is really not fair to call it a mini-conf. The Scale 14x, PostgreSQL Day attendance was larger than every conference except PgConf.US (EDIT: in the United States/Canada). It is a great opportunity to integrate with a wider community that is diverse, technologically capable and at the front lines of production installations.
I spoke on Backups: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. I had over 100 attendees in …
13:58, the sun is shining, the sky is blue, and I just had the best tomatoes -- ever. Welcome to Vienna and PgConf.eu
I am sitting in a glorious (although not the conference) hotel, writing this article. It is 13:58, at least it is where I am from, the great Pacific Northwest. I must admit, I miss the trees although I hear there are lots of them if you leave the city. What is there to say about this great city that the European community picked for their latest conference?
First and probably …
PostgreSQL 9.5, Community, Features and More!
I spoke at the Whatcom PUG meeting last night on PostgreSQL 9.5. This is my fourth time giving this talk. The previous locations were DCPUG, PhillyPUG, and NYCPUG last month. The talk was well received and this was Whatcom PUG's best turn out yet! We even had an Open Street Map developer visit from Vancouver B.C.
The presentation does discuss some of the more popular features of 9.5, but as …