Robert Treat
I help people Postgres
Tampa, Florida, United States
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A veteran free software developer and advocate, Robert spent his early years building data-intensive, rapid-time web systems within the Fortune 500. Perhaps best known from his work with the Postgres project where he was recognized as a Major Contributor, he is an author and international speaker on topics including Open Source, databases, DevOps, and large scale web operations. Employed as a Principle Database Engineer for Amazon Web Services, you can find his personal work online at https://pgtreats.info.
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I Didn't Know Postgres Could Do That!
PostgreSQL is often thought of as "The Database for DBAs", but what more and more developers are finding out is that what makes Postgres "The Worlds Most Advanced Open Source Database" is its wide array of features, many of which are really geared towards users who want to build applications on top of Postgres.
In this talk, we'll look at some of the features in Postgres you may not have seen in other database systems, and talk about how you can make use of those features in your applications. Queries, indexing, data types, and more will all be up for discussion as we show you examples of just what Postgres can do.
Managing Your Manager
Product Managers, Project Managers, ScrumMasters, and sometimes even Engineering Managers. People whose job is primarily to support developers, and yet often these folks come from a background that includes zero technical experience. Under constant pressure to focus on "feature delivery" by folks from Sales, Marketing, and other various parts of the business, all too often the so-called "non-functional requirements" often fall by the wayside. Things like operability and sustainability can often fall by the wayside if developers aren't given the resources needed to make sure these things are baked in.
But all is not lost. Many of the lessons learned from the DevOps movement can also be used to bring "Product" in-line with both developers and operators. Focusing across specific roles, we will look at the full life-cycle of development, deployment, incident response, and everything in support of that, and that affects planned work and the actual work that gets done. Methods for championing Ops needs while avoiding the classic "sky is falling" pattern of ops management will be looked at, including a look at unplanned work, how it affects your team, and how to make things flow.
Advanced INT->BIGINT Conversions
Well folks, it is now 2022 and we are still dealing with integer overflow problems. Just a few months ago I came within 24 hours of watching one of the worlds tech unicorns come to a stop because of a possible overflow. We all know what the problem is but what we need to know is how to avoid it, in production, at scale, when it is already too late. So join me as I discuss some of the more advanced work we did to get out of the mess in front of us and help ensure we didn't see problems elsewhere in the chain; including dealing with other data types and on-the-fly schema change needs as well.
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PostgresConf Silicon Valley
I Didn't Know Postgres Could Do That!
https://postgresworld.org/conferences/SiliconValley2018/program/proposals/i-didn-t-know-postgres-could-do-that
Robert Treat
I help people Postgres
Tampa, Florida, United States
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