Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

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/

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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.

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

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

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.

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