Category “Conferences” — 104 articles

Have you heard about the Open World Forum conference that takes place in Paris, October 3-5, 2013? I’ll be presenting a talk about PostgreSQL in the track NewSQL: Managing large data sets with relational technologies. *Open World Forum used to be Open Source Developers Conference* My talk is PostgreSQL is web scale and here’s the summary: We call it the world’s most advanced open source database, and we are actually offering in the same package full ACID compliance per default and advanced trade-offs to reach any kind of flexibility needed, all with per-transaction controls.

After spending an awesome week in San Francisco, CA I’m lucky enough to be spending another week in the USA, in Portand, OR. The main excuse for showing up here has been OSCON where I presented a talk about the fotolog migration from MySQL to PostgreSQL. *[Mark Wong](http://markwkm.blogspot.com/) is doing some serious database crochet work!* Fotolog is a photo sharing website having more than 32 millions of users sharing more than a billion of photos, which made for a very interesting migration use case.

Those days feel really lucky to me. I’m currently visiting friends and customers in San Francisco, and really enjoying my trip here! Of course Josh Berkus took the opportunity to organise a SFPUG meeting and I had the pleasure of being the speaker over there. My talk was about the most recent version of Skytools and the opportunity to realise that we’re still missing a lot on documentation. One of the attendee did propose to help us on that front as he apparently really likes technical writing.

Last week was held the CHAR(13) conference in a great venue in the UK countryside. Not only did we discover UK under good weather conditions and some local beers, we also did share a lot of good ideas! *The Hordwood House is quite of a maze really!* The conference was run side to side with PGDAY UK, and those two days were packed with great conferences! I had the pleasure to present a talk about Advanced Distributed Architectures where some examples of architectures using Streaming Replication, Skytools and PLproxy are shown.

Recently I’ve been to some more conferences and didn’t take the time to blog about them, even though I really did have great fun over there. So I felt I should take some time and report about my experience at those conferences. And of course, some more is on the way, as the PostgreSQL Conference Tour gets busier each year it seems. *And PostgreSQL Conferences get more attendees each year!* PGCON 2013, Ottawa In may was the famous PGCON conference where PostgreSQL contributors are meeting all together, offering the occasion to run the Hackers Meeting.