Monday, 6 June 2016

Another evening with PostgreSQL

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.

The talks will be in Italian and, hopefully, I'll be able to stream them via google hangout.

Here is the event page in Italian .

The schedule is

15:00 Don’t panic! - Introduzione a PostgreSQL
15:40 Coffee break
15:50 The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal - PostgreSQL: uno sguardo dentro al motore
16:50 Coffee break
17:00 Mostly harmless - Backup & recovery in PostgreSQL
17:50 Closing remarks - Q&A


There is also a Facebook event to RSVP.



The event is Free of charge.
 
See you in Ferrara!

Thursday, 11 February 2016

Brigthton PostgreSQL Meetup news

I've been  busy recently  and I failed to update on the last meetup news.
I apologise for that.

We had a very interesting meetup in January.

Alexey Bashtanov explained how the grouping works in postgres and how to improve or even re implement in C the grouping functions.
On the meetup page there are the pictures from the meeting .
The presentation's recording is available there and the slides are free to download on slideshare there.

We are already preparing the next meetup announced for 18th of March.
That's the abstract.

The next postgresql meetup will be a technical talk on the ways in which PostgreSQL can communicate with the outside world.

This talk will cover PostgreSQL Foreign Data Wrappers which are tables that
can read and write to external services. 

Efficient ways to run queries from applications will also be covered.

About the speaker.
Matthew Franglen works as a team lead in Brandwatch. He has a long history
of development, with over 10 years of experience.





As usual the talk will be preceded by pizza and a nice chat. We'll also do a recording.

If you are in Brighton please join us here.
http://www.meetup.com/Brighton-PostgreSQL-Meetup/events/228747329/