Posted Wednesday Mar 16th, 2011 06:47am
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I arrived at the New Yorker yesterday to find that it was an excellent choice for our attendees to sleep. In the last couple of years they have renovated all the rooms and the hotel is quite nice. I have a double and will be here the next 12 days, yes that means I will be here on St. Patrick's day. For all those PostgreSQL Peeps that have never been to NYC, the bars are open till 4AM (although I was long asleep by then).
Mastering PostgreSQL Administration and Surviving Server Overload are both registering at record pace (in fact if you want to take these classes you better register now). The Pro PostgreSQL and Streaming replication classes are also doing respectably. All four of these classes are being given by well know PostgreSQL Contributors, Bruce Momjian, Greg Smith, Robert Treat and Magnus Hagander respectively.
We have also announced a round table at East specifically geared toward a very real problem in the current market, Databases in the Cloud. I am looking forward to this round table as it features and eclectic mix of expert practitioners from Cirrus, to 10Gen, Heroku and Open Hosting.
When we decided to change the training format for #PgEast we weren't sure what to expect. We have done a few trainings in the past, specifically at the last #PgEast and they were reasonably successful. We took a shot this year and pushed the envelope on the number of trainings we were going to provide and with all risks there are some possibilities that not all things will work out. Thus, due to low registration for the class, Django. Although the Rails class is doing just fine. While considering why the registration was low, I don't think it was that it was Django. I think that it was a general Django + PostgreSQL class. If the class has been something like, Scaling your application with Django + PostgreSQL it would have been more attractive.
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Posted Thursday Mar 10th, 2011 01:19pm
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With #PgEast just two weeks away I have been looking for every possible place that I can to advocate the conference. In doing so, I have been finding lots of interesting tidbits of information. For example, did you know (per Stefan/Mastermind) PostgreSQL is lucky to reach 15k tps per core for SIMPLE QUERIES, whereas MySQL can do upward of 30k tps per core for SIMPLE QUERIES? There is no question that PostgreSQL is going to stomp all over MySQL for complex queries by the maturity of the PostgreSQL planner alone. The problem with PostgreSQL for simple queries is not our execution but is directly related to our parser. It seems there is definitely improvement to be made here. Is this low hanging fruit? Why haven't we fixed this?
Next, I read today that SourceForge is moving to MongoDB plus Python. Once upon a time Sourceforge was a big time PostgreSQL shop. Now it is not uncommon for a company to chose different platforms. It is also not uncommon for people to move from or to PostgreSQL. However, this is different.
For a company like SourceForge who has been embedded in the traditional web world for so many years to migrate wholesale to an entirely new platform which isn't even similar to their existing platform is telling. Most companies may migrate from MySQL to PostgreSQL (this makes sense) but from a fully relational, ACID compliant database to MongoDB? That is a paradigm shift and it marks what I think is an upcoming opportunity for our community.
I have been working with 10Gen, the creators of MongoDB for the past couple of months because of PostgreSQL Conference. They even have a training and full track within #PgEast. Generally speaking, MongoDB users are not database people, they are application developers. This is why I wanted MongoDB to be present. I wanted the cross pollination of ideas, hoping that the two platforms could come together and provide a productive discourse for both sides.
It is no secret that there is many more application developers in the market than database people and this is where the problem lays. If the majority of people doing the actual development are pushing toward technologies that makes their lives easier then the old and crufty relational database is going to lose out. Certainly PostgreSQL and other relational databases aren't going anywhere but it is important to recognize growing trends, learn from them and try to find a way to monopolize on them.
And with that, I am going to pimp The PostgreSQL Conference again. For what should be obvious reasons (it is in 12 days) we are in the final stretch of what is going to be the largest PostgreSQL conference in the Western World. If you do a little bit of legwork (GGIYF) you can even find some pretty hefty discounts to the conference.
Oh and don't forget to follow the conference on twitter @postgresconf and the hash tag is #PgEast.
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Posted Tuesday Mar 8th, 2011 09:30am
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The session schedule is now up. We also have a new twitter account for the conference. Further, EFF has also offered a discounted membership for #PgEast attendees, more information can be found here. Of course you can register in full here.
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Posted Tuesday Mar 1st, 2011 01:14pm
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The training (not sessions) schedule is up for #PgEast trainings. You can get it right off the front page. We are running 7 sessions in parallel with a total of 9 trainings.
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Posted Tuesday Mar 1st, 2011 10:54am
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It is 21 days to PostgreSQL Conference East (#PgEast), which is set once again to break attendance records of all the western world conferences. Hosted in NYC, we have large number of sessions, over 60 speakers, a full day of trainings, an excellent NYCPug meeting at the event, and an excessive number of sponsors (nahh... we need 3x more, sponsors ROCK!). I am truly humbled at the amazing level of positive response we have received for hosting PgEast in NYC. CMD and the conference has had so much support from the community we are considering making NYC a permanent home for #PgEast.
I have been going over the list of talks wondering which I am going to visit or possibly even record. We definitely will not be recording them all this time. Here are a couple (outside of the Foursquare talk that I want to see:
Theo Schlossnagle is giving the Streaming databases talk. Theo is always a speaker to attend. He explores interesting topics and as I have no professional experience with Streaming databases, I am excited to see what he has to offer..Org core member Peter Eisentraut is giving the PL/Proxy talk. I gave a talk on Pl/Proxy at West 2007. I am excited to see how far PL/Proxy has come in the last 3.5 years.
Of course thank you to all of our sponsors:
Now, if you read all the way do to the bottom of this post, the first 25 people that register with the coupon code 21DAYSALE will receive 30% off the registration to #PgEast .
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