An Evening with Bruce
In 2020, Covid virus was responsible for the cancellation of a special meetup with Bruce Momjian, co-founder of PostgreSQL, long-time member of the PostgreSQL core team and VP of EnterpriseDB. Therefore, we are extra happy to invite you to a meetup with Bruce on April 11, 2023!
Derk van Veen of Adyen will start the evening with a presentation on the lessons learned of Adyen about Partitioning
After a short break, Bruce will take us through a presentation on “Postgres” Database, Containers, and the Cloud.
Request:
After Bruce’s presentation, YOU have the chance to ask Bruce anything you’ve always wanted to know about PostgreSQL during a fireside chat. In this Q&A session, Bruce will answer questions from members of the Postgres Usergroup NL.
We would like to ask you to submit the questions you have before April 5 so Bruce can prepare for the questions as well. You can submit these questions via the meetup portal but also by emailing gerard@optimadata.nl.
We are very grateful to Adyen for the hospitality to host us once again for this Meetup. We are looking forward to a great evening!
Gerard Zuidweg – OptimaData
Feike Steenbergen – TimescaleDB
Agenda
17:30 – 18:30: Reception, snack and welcome drink
18:30 – 18:40: Opening by Gerard Zuidweg – OptimaData
18:40 – 19:30: Derk van Veen on behalf of Adyen – Partitioning
break
19:45 – 20:30: Bruce Momjian – “Postgres” Database, Containers, and the Cloud
20:30 – 20:45: Fireside chat with Bruce Momjian moderated by Feike Steenbergen
20:45 – 21:15: Wrap up, meeting and drinks
Bruce Momjian – Postgres-database, containers en de cloud
Containers en de Cloud zijn een rage nu bedrijven op zoek zijn naar nieuwe efficiëntie en flexibiliteit. Hoewel ze erg populair zijn, groeit het gebruik van deze faciliteiten voor databases nog steeds. Deze sessie verkent hun voordelen voor database-implementaties.
Over Bruce
Bruce Momjian is medeoprichter en kernteamlid van de PostgreSQL Global Development Group en werkt sinds 1996 aan PostgreSQL. Sinds 2006 is hij in dienst bij EnterpriseDB.
Bruce heeft op vele internationale open-source conferenties gesproken en is de auteur van PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts, gepubliceerd door Addison-Wesley. Voor zijn betrokkenheid bij PostgreSQL werkte Bruce als consultant en ontwikkelde hij aangepaste databasetoepassingen voor enkele van ‘s werelds grootste advocatenkantoren. Als academicus heeft Bruce een Master in Educatie, was hij leraar computerwetenschappen op eenDerk van Veen – Partitioning
At Adyen we have invested and built a lot on the Postgres database engine, overall this has worked very well for us.
Partitioning a table starts very simply. In just a few commands, your table turns into a partitioned table. But when you try to perform maintenance under heavy load, it turns out to be not so easy.
In this session, I’ll discuss all our lessons learned, the pros and cons of standard partitions, and show how and when we cheat with our catalog to avoid (b)locking other transactions.
I will also discuss how partitioning affects performance in both good and really painful ways. The goal of the talk is to share best practices and lessons learned for managing Postgres from Adye high school and giving international lectures at universities.
We want to share this with the broader Postgres community because we think our DBAs will find it useful and we are also looking for feedback and possible further improvements.
Location
We meetup will be held at Adyen’s location in Amsterdam at Simon Carmigeltstraat near Central Station.
The address is:
Simon Carmiggeltstraat 6 – 50 (Oosterdok)
Amsterdam
Accessibility:
From NS Station Amsterdam Centraal you can easily walk to the office at Oosterdok. You can park your car in several parking garages near the station or for example Albert Hein Oosterdok.
E meetup wordt gehouden op de locatie van Adyen te Amsterdam aan de Simon Carmigeltstraat vlakbij het centraal Station.
From Amsterdam Central Station you can easily walk to the Oosterdok office. You can park your car in several parking garages near the station or, for example, Albert Hein Oosterdok.