SFPUG City: PipelineDB

For September, two of the founders of PipelineDB are going to be introducing this streaming PostgreSQL fork. Come learn what PipelineDB is about and how you'd use it alongside PostgreSQL. This meetup will be at a new venue, If(we), a social networking company which uses PostgreSQL together with internal…

Elephants in Containers

In the wake of DockerCon, the July meetup in San Francisco will be all about Linux Containers: Chris Winslett of Compose.io will present Governor, an auto-failover system for managing a cluster of PostgreSQL replicas. Madhuri Yechuri of ClusterHQ will explain Flocker, which uses the brand-new plugin interface for Docker…

Videos for Upsert, BDR

Videos are up for the two topics from last month's meetup: 9.5's UPSERT with Peter Geoghegan, and UDR and BDR with Andres Freund. If you've been wondering about these new features, watch and learn. Thanks so much to Rackspace for making these videos (and for hosting the event)!…

South Bay PUG: Vitesse and Heikki at Adobe

The South Bay PUG is having a meetup on April 28th. Speakers will include CK Tan of PostgreSQL enhancement company Vitesse Data, and Heikki Linnakangas, PostgreSQL Committer. We do not expect to have live video for this meetup, sorry! RSVP on the Meetup Page.…

KaiGai and PG-Strom March 18th

One of the hot topics for this year's pgCon will be parallel processing in postgres, including using Postgres with GPU processing. One such project is PG-Strom, led by Tokyo-based PostgreSQL contributor KaiGai Kohei. KaiGai, who works for NEC and is also the leading contributor behind SEPostgres and Row-Level Security, will…