Writings

Presentations

• Postgres 12: Choose Your Own Adventure, All Demos Edition - OSS Summit NA, 2020


• Choose Your Own Adventure: Postgres 12 By Example - PGCon 2020


• Managing Chaos in Production: Testing vs Monitoring - Scale18x / DevOpsDay LA, 2020


• Welcome to Postgres 12 - SCaLE 18x, 2020


• Bringin DevOps to the Database - Postgres Vision, 2019


• The Lost Art of plpgsql - PGCon, 2019


• Logical Replication… Let’s Do It Live! - PostgresConf, 2019


• Logical Replication… Let’s Do It Live! - SCaLE 17x, 2019


• Managing Chaos in Production: Testing vs. Monitoring[video] - LISA, 2018


• DevSecOps in Practice (Panel) - LISA, 2018


• Yogi Berra, Unsung Hero of DevOps - LISA, 2018


• I Didn’t Know Postgres Could Do That! - Postgresconf Silicon Valley, 2018


• PostgreSQL Partitioning - PGCon, 2018


• DevOpsing Your Database - PostgresConf US, 2018


• Open Source Projects vs. Open Source Products - Open Source 101 Columbia, 2018


• Production Testing Through Monitoring - DevOpsDays Baltimore, 2018


• PostgreSQL Partitioning - SCaLE 16x, 2018


• Postgres Logical Replication… Let’s Do It Live![video] - Postgres Open, 2017


• Production Testing Through Monitoring - DevOpsDays Salt Lake City, 2017


• Never Have I Ever (Horrible Adventures in Postgres) - Postgres Open, 2016


• Managing Databases in a DevOps Environment - PGDay Philly, 2016


• Less Alarming Alerts! - SRECon, 2016


• Closing Plenary - Surge, 2015


• Yogi Berra, Unsung Hero of DevOps - Surge, 2015


• Your Place Or Mine - A Discussion On Where To Host Your Site - Velocity EU, 2014


• What Ops Can Learn From Design - Velocity EU, 2014


• Postgres 9.4, A First Look - PGCon, 2014


• Less Alarming Alerts! - Velocity EU, 2013


• What’s New in Postgres 9.3 - PGDay DE, 2013


• What’s New in Postgres 9.3 - PGConf EU, 2013


• Postgres: Past, Present, and Pachyderm - All Things Open, 2013


• What’s New in Postgres 9.3 - PGCon, 2013


• How to Eat an Elephant - RICON East, 2013


• Managing Databases in a DevOps Environment - Velocity Europe, 2012


• Big Bad Upgraded Postgres - PGCon, 2012


• Mastering Postgres Administration - PGCon, 2012


• Big Bad Upgraded Postgres - PGDay DC, 2012


• Advanced WAL file management with OmniPITR - PGDay Denver, 2011


• The Essential PostgreSQL.conf - PGDay Denver, 2011


• Dealing With Vendor Weaknesses In User Space - Highload++, 2011


• Dealing With Vendor Weaknesses In User Space - Surge, 2011


• Managing Databases In A DevOps Environment - PostgresOpen, 2011


• Postgres Vs. Riak (Prezi) - Riak Meetup, 2011


• Pro Postgres 9 - OSCon Data, 2011


• Database Scalability Patterns: Sharding for Massive Growth - OSCon Data, 2011


• Advanced WAL File Management with OmniPITR - PDXPUGDay, 2011


• Managing Databases in a DevOps Environment - Velocity, 2011


• Advanced WAL file management with OmniPITR - PGCon, 2011


• Database Scalability Patterns: Sharding for Unlimited Growth - PGCon, 2011


• Advanced WAL File Management with OmniPITR - PGEast, 2011


• Postgres in the Cloud Panel (Host) - PGEast, 2011


• The Essential PostgreSQL.conf 9 - PGEast, 2011


• Pro Postgres 9 - PGEast, 2011


• Scaling with Postgres - PGWest, 2010 (impromptu)


• Postgres 9, the other stuff - PGWest, 2010


• Scaling with Postgres - Highload++, 2010


• SQL vs NoSQL Panel - Surge, 2010


• Database Scalability Patterns - Surge, 2010


• Database Scalability Patterns - OSCon, 2010


• Check Please! What Your Postgres Database Wishes You Would Monitor - PGCon, 2010


• Know more waiting, A guide to PostgreSQL 9.0 - PGCon, 2010


• Database Scalability Patterns - PGEast, 2010


• Know more waiting, A guide to PostgreSQL 9.0 - PGEast, 2010


• Conventional Thinking, A Guide to Database Naming Standards - OSCon, 2009


• Check Please! What Your Postgres Database Wishes You Would Monitor - PGDay San Jose, 2009


• No More Waiting, A Guide To Postgres 8.4 - PGCon, 2009


• Scaling with Postgres - Percona Performance Conference, 2009


• No More Waiting, A Guide To Postgres 8.4 - PostgreSQL Conference East, 2009


• The Essential PostgreSQL.conf - Beijing Perl/Postgres Workshop 2008


• Pro PostgreSQL - OSCon 2008


• Database Anti-Patterns - PGcon 2008


• Big, Bad, Broken PostgreSQL - PostgreSQL Conference East 2008


• What’s New In PostgreSQL 8.3 - Ohio Linuxfest 2007


• Introduction to PL/PHP - OSCon 2007


• Pro PostgreSQL - OSCon 2007


• PostgreSQL Partitioning - PgCon 2007


• Pro PostgreSQL - PgCon 2007


• Introduction to PL/PHP - php/db|works 2006


• Building Rails to Legacy Applications - OSCon 2006


• Explaining Explain - OSCon 2005


• Applying Advanced Database Features - OSCon 2004

• OmniTI 2015 Prediction: Docker Virtualization to Become Mainstream, VMBlog (2014-11-19)


• 4 Best Practices to Monitor Vitals During the Holidays, Retail Info Sys News (2011-12)


• Postgres 8.4 Features, Open Source Database Magazine (2009-07)


• Database Migrations, Certification Magazine (2006-09)


• Build Your Own AIM Answerbot (2006-06-15)


• Running PostgreSQL in a cross-platform environment (2006-04-07)


• Interview with Mark Stosberg (From Oracle/tcl to PostgreSQL/Perl) (2004-10-24)


• Interview with Jim Wilson (From SQL Anyware & Foxbase) (2004-06-13)

• Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8: From Novice to Professional (Author)


• Beginning Databases with PostgreSQL (Technical Reviewer)


• Instant PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to (Technical Reviewer)

• 10 professional-development tips for programmers Computerworld UK, 2014-11-05


• Popforms Leader of the Week Popforms, 2014-04-06


• HTML5: Winning Developer Hearts and Minds–but With Some Holdouts eweek, 2013-05-30


• Why PostgreSQL can best SQLServer, Oracle Techtarget, 2006-03-21


• Interview with the PostgreSQL Team OSNews, 2003-04-21