An update for the calendar of the San Francisco PostgreSQL User Group for November, December and January: A new meetup has been scheduled in San Francisco. Denis Lussier will be visiting, and will present about Foreign Data Wrappers on November 5th. This meetup is sponsored by Rackspace. This will be…
On October 15th Josh Berkus will be reprising EXPLAIN Explained, his presentation from Postgres Open, at the Pandora offices in downtown Oakland. This talk will cover how to read EXPLAIN and EXPLAIN ANALYZE, and is aimed at developers and new DBAs. Pandora staff will also do a lightning talk. On…
Original Core Team member Bruce Momjian will be visiting the Bay Area this August, and will be doing two different talks, both for SF City and South Bay. If you want the full Brucealicious experience, you can go to both! For San Francisco, we're taking a vote on which topic…
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…
We're having two meetups in May: one in Oakland, and one in San Francisco: Turnitin.com will show off tools and technques they've learned and created at their offices in Oakland. This includes a preview of their presentations at pgCon. Andres will explain the new BDR and UDR replication at…