Now that Oracle owns MySQL, it’s clear that it’s not going anywhere fast. What’s a developer to do? Flee to the arms of NoSQL? Are you going to have to learn Erlang just to query your data? Forget all of that. Postgres is the answer to your database needs. It’s …
Your fledgling social network for hedgehogs is starting to gain traction, but now new feature requests are pouring in. How you can you meet the demands of an ambitious product team within your existing stack? There’s no time to waste, so we will look at how to leverage the venerable …
Rumor has it all these other users and companies do this thing called “backup” on their PostgreSQL database. And people keep saying it’s a good idea. But what does it actually mean? In this talk we’ll go through the different options we have for PostgreSQL backups, how to use them …
This video explains (nearly) everything you need to know to bring up, tune, and keep a PostgreSQL database health. It covers installation, basic tuning, backups, disaster recovery, and helpful tools and techniques.
Postgres has long been known as a stable database product that reliably stores your data. However, in recent years it has picked up many features, allowing it to become a much sexier database.
This talk shares hindsights about the why and the how of that migration, what problems couldn’t be solved without moving away and how the solution now looks. The tools used for migrating away the data, the methods and will detail the new architecture. And the new home: in the cloud!
