Category “Conferences” — 104 articles

Going to FOSDEM

1 mins read Conferences, PostgreSQL Confs
A quick blog entry to say that yes: And I will even do my Extension’s talk which had a success at pgday.eu. The talk will be updated to include the last developments of the extension’s feature, as some of it changed already in between, and to detail the plan for the ALTER EXTENSION ... UPGRADE feature that I’d like to see included as soon as 9.1, but time is running so fast.

MVCC in the Cloud

3 mins read Conferences, PostgreSQL Confs
At CHAR(10) Markus had a talk about Using MVCC for Clustered Database Systems and explained how Postgres-R does it. The scope of his project is to maintain a set of database servers in the same state, eventually. Now, what does it mean to get “In the Cloud”? Well there are more than one answer I’m sure, mine would insist on including this “Elasticity” bit. What I mean here is that it’d be great to be able to add or lose nodes and stay online.

Back from CHAR(10)

2 mins read Conferences, PostgreSQL Confs
It surely does not feel like a full month and some more went by since we were enjoying PGCon 2010, but in fact it was already the time for CHAR(10). The venue was most excellent, as Oxford is a very beautiful city. Also, the college was like a city in the city, and having the accomodation all in there really smoothed it all. On a more technical viewpoint, the range of topics we talked about and the even broader one in the “Hall Track” make my mind full of ideas, again.

PGday.eu feedback

3 mins read Conferences, Emacs Confs
At pgday there was this form you could fill to give speakers some feedback about their talks. And that’s a really nice way as a speaker to know what to improve. And as Magnus was searching a nice looking chart facility in python and I spoke about matplotlib, it felt like having to publish something. Here is my try at some nice graphics. Well I’ll let you decide how nice the result is:

PGDay.eu, Paris: it was awesome!

1 mins read Conferences, PostgreSQL Confs
moment. Lots of attendees, lots of quality talks ( slides are online), good food, great party: all the ingredients were there! It also was for me the occasion to first talk about this tool I’ve been working on for months, called pg_staging, which aims to empower those boring production backups to help maintaining staging environments (for your developers and testers). All in all such events keep reminding me what it means exactly when we way that one of the greatest things about PostgreSQL is its community.

Dimitri Fontaine

PostgreSQL Major Contributor

Open Source Software Engineer

France