Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social
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PostgreSQL, Linux, Java, and more. Lover of computers, electronics and Open Source. European. Lib Dem. Lead Technical Strategist nexteam.co.uk
Joined Nov 2022
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Happy DBA Appreciation Day from (a subset of) the PGDay Lowlands team!
Registration is now open, especially for you heroes (and for everyone else too): https://2024.pgday.nl #DBADay
@dba_day
@dick_turpin so it turned out even Brexit couldn't heal there internal divisions.
It's just a shame they could not put the country first, rather than their internal problems.
It will be interesting to see when Sunak steps down.
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Today is the #dbaday . Please share the website https://dbaday.org with your team mates and say thank you to your DBA for all the hard work in the shadows!
#database #dba #PostgreSQL #Oracle #MySQL #MariaDB #SQLServer
@nixCraft 'Clearly we should use tabs over spaces'...
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uspol snark
You do realise that George III was more constrained by parliament than #SCOTUS have just made the US President, right? We had a civil war and everything that established that a century before the declaration of independence. And Glorious Revolution a few years after that to get rid of James II.
They haven't rolled you back to 1776, but to the 1600s. You poor bastards.
In which case, just use Wifi :)
@ascherbaum having built some high density RPI cluster servers.
I'd go with CM4s over stock RPIs.
I will say, cabling is very easy to underestimate.
Even with on PCB switches, and in chassis switches, getting 96 nodes into 2U is a struggle. Especially if you want decent storage too.
Would be hard to use SPI like that, whilst its a multidrop bus, you need peripheral select lines to manage bus access.
Plus gate capacitance, trace length and slew rate come into play to limit things in practice.
Would be much better off going with CAN or RS485, except none of that would get close to the bandwidth of Ethernet, especially for the cost point.
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EDB provides a data and AI platform leveraging #Postgres for any cloud. Ensuring high availability, security, and compliance, EDB helps enterprises modernize and scale efficiently.
And they've joined the band of supporters for PGDay Lowlands! 2024.pgday.nl
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Got a cool free culture, digital rights or open source talk?
Good news!
Our scheduled track CfP is still open and we'd love to hear from you!
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@nixCraft Technically, I run my apps as containers on VMs on bare metal, so kind of all 3.
Chris Ellis
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Registration for PGDay UK 2024 in - surprise: London is now open. The event takes place on Sep 11th.
A few sponsor slots are also still available.
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Our Call for Speakers is now open until July 9: https://2024.pgday.nl/call-for-papers/
Get all your talk proposals in on performance tuning, administering large scale PostgreSQL installations, success (or: failure!) stories, GenAI, ... #CfP
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The number of teams I've met who are doing AWS and/or k8s for a service mesh to handle loads a single 1985 PC could deliver, smdh.
25k users, 100 transactions each a day.
Baby, *any* monolith could deliver that, if your team doesn't start with the assumption that http is free.
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I've missed the CFP of @postgresuk because I thought I couldn't travel but it turns out I can go to London and come back in a single day by train. Same with Amsterdam. So I've just submitted a talk proposal for the brand new @pgdaylowlands 🐘🤞🏻
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If you missed the #PostgreSQL fun at @posetteconf this week, the good news is you can replay this playlist of the 4 Livestreams 🎁
So make some popcorn 🍿 & get comfortable & watch the replays 📺🐘 w/color commentary by lovely #Postgres hosts @floord @melanieplageman @jeltef @tchorix KK Ravi & Pino de Candia & me!
Enjoy! 👋 Also: Boosts appreciated 🚀 & if you like a speaker's talk, pls let them know or give their video a 👍
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I see nightmare stories of bosses getting upset when employees take PTO for important life events. I was at my desk at a previous job when I got a call that a family member had become suddenly ill. My boss all but shoved me out the door: "Go be with your family. Now. Leave. Take care of this and don't come back until you're ready. We'll cover everything here."
I couldn't overstate the effect this had on my loyalty to that boss and company.
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@floord and I just spoke at POSETTE 2024 (@posetteconf) about neurodiversity and mental health in IT, Open Source circles and the PostgreSQL Community!
🎞️ Video link: https://youtu.be/ZWWjPPC3I4w
✍️ Blog post: https://vyruss.org/blog/posette-2024-how-to-work-with-other-people.html
🖥️ Slides: https://vyruss.org/computing/slides/posette2024_how_to_work_with_other_people.pdf
#Neurodiversity #MentalHealth #PostgreSQL #Postgres #Community #OpenSource #POSETTE #PosetteConf
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PostgreSQL, Linux, Java, and more. Lover of computers, electronics and Open Source. European. Lib Dem. Lead Technical Strategist nexteam.co.uk
Joined Nov 2022
