Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

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

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

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.

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

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!

https://mastodon.social/@oggcamp/112614369114868924

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.

#PostgreSQL #Conference #London #UK #UnitedKingdom

https://2024.pgday.uk/registration/

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

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 🐘🤞🏻

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 👍

#livestream #OpenSource #database #PosetteConf

https://aka.ms/posette-livestream-playlist

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.

@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

I had a talk about "performance cliffs" in #PostgreSQL (and cost-based optimizers in general) at #posetteconf yesterday. I think it went quite well, and the recording is now online, so maybe take a look. 😉

https://youtu.be/UzdAelm-QSY?feature=shared

If you're in the #UK, please ensure you're registered to #vote, and use it. I know it can feel like it doesn't make a difference, but governments don't care about people who don't vote.

For example:

Young people don't tend to vote. So student grants were dropped in favour of loans, and now we have tuition fees.

Old people do tend to vote, so we got triple-locked pensions.
https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

The 42 talks 📺 in @posetteconf were so good ⭐️ & what a fun conversation w/#PostgreSQL ppl on the virtual hallway track 💬

Missed the #PosetteConf livestreams? No worries, the talks are already published! Watch the playlist 🍿 & show the speakers love 👍
#livestream #community #Postgres #database #OpenSource #Microsoft #Azure

https://aka.ms/posette-playlist

👏 BIG THANK YOU 👏 to all speakers, hosts, attendees, talk selection team, & organizing team
That's a wrap for #PosetteConf 2024 🐘
aka.ms/posette-playlist

#Postgres #database #community #livestream #OpenSource