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
Schedule Published For PGDay UK 2024 - @postgresuk
We're excited to publish the scheduled for this years PGDay UK PostgreSQL conference.
The schedule offers a wide range of talks covering different topics, which I'm sure will appeal to a wide audience.
Take a lot of the schedule:
https://pgday.uk/events/pgdayuk2024/schedule/
And get yourself a ticket to the UK's best PostgreSQL Conference.
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Programmers using LLMs:
I type in a comment and poof, new code appears! I am productive.
Programmers not using LLMs (like me):
I sometimes re-type code carefully that's similar to what's already in the codebase because the act of typing it out helps me bond with the concepts I'm expressing in code.
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The thing is, we're not just arguing about tools.
*We're arguing about how to be artists.*
My code is the same as my music, photography, and writing.
Why are you outsourcing your art?
Chris Ellis
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We renamed the #PathToCitusCon monthly #podcast & the new name is #TalkingPostgres!
If you're already subscribed, everything should just work. & if you've not yet listened to the podcast about #PostgreSQL, maybe it's time? People say they like it 🙏 & that makes me happy, will keep making it useful & interesting ❤️
Boosts appreciated...
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-for-postgresql/say-hello-to-the-talking-postgres-podcast/ba-p/4186111
#Postgres #community #OpenSource #Microsoft #database
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You can join us for the next LIVE recording of the #TalkingPostgres #podcast (Ep17, formerly called #PathToCitusCon), with a parallel live text chat (it's fun!) 👋
🗓️ Wed July 10 @ 10:00am PDT
🎙️ Guest: the awesome Pino de Candia (& former co-host)
✅ Topic: Podcasting about Postgres
📣 Cal invite w/instructions on how to join the Discord: https://aka.ms/TalkingPostgres-Ep17-cal
#discord #OpenSource #community #PostgreSQL #Postgres #database #Microsoft
Chris Ellis
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The final countdown! Our #CfP closes in 12 hours from now! Get all your talk proposals in or be square 🟦: https://2024.pgday.nl/call-for-papers/
Chris Ellis
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Vague subtoot:
The aversion to “politics” is a pathology of the tech scene. It's an extension of our denigration of “soft skills”.
Politics describes the process by which a group of two or more people make decisions.
Rejecting a PR to make documentation language gender-neutral is a political decision. Accepting such a PR is a political decision.
But! Accepting or rejecting a PR that adds a command line option is also a political decision! The difference is that this sort of PR is¹ less contentious.
¹: probably! There are plenty of examples of extremely contentious PRs.
Chris Ellis
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Thanks 🙏 to suggestions by our #PostgreSQL listeners, we have renamed Path To Citus Con!
The new #podcast name is "Talking Postgres" 👋, what do you think? ❤️
Find all past & future episodes of #TalkingPostgres here!
🎧 https://talkingpostgres.com
📺 On YouTube: https://aka.ms/TalkingPostgres-playlist
Please tell your friends, boosts appreciated!
#Postgres #community #OpenSource #database #Microsoft #PathToCitusCon
@popey bring on the crazyness of Ed Davey and Keir Starmer, I'm sure it'll be a wild ride.
A very nice end to an otherwise bad week.
And then hop on over to PGDay Lowlands in Amsterdam the day after.
Where you can get double the database fun, tickets available now too:
For DBA Appreciation Day, why not treat yourself to some early September database fun.
By coming along to PGDay UK 2024 in London, you can get yourself a ticket now:
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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.
Chris Ellis
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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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PostgreSQL, Linux, Java, and more. Lover of computers, electronics and Open Source. European. Lib Dem. Lead Technical Strategist nexteam.co.uk
Joined Nov 2022
