Postgres

Busy as Hell

5 min read

Boy have I not posted in a while. As excuses go, I actually have a pretty good one for once: I’ve been swamped in being ridiculously productive. The best part about it is that it’s been so fun I don’t even mind. And to think it all started when I finished a video game.

Around the World

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This year has gotten off to an utterly ridiculous start. Now that I’m working with pgEdge, they’re encouraging me to submit to every possible conference that will have me. So I have. In addition to that, there are a few company events which require travel, so I’m globe-trotting for those too.

Living on the Edge

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I’ve been somewhat tight-lipped about my job hunt, but not through any particular desire to obfuscate. No, I’ve just been laying low because I caught Covid right before Christmas and spent the last couple weeks recuperating. Just my luck, getting sick again so soon after whatever got me following Thanksgiving, and effectively missing the holidays as a consequence. Still, I had an informal offer before being incapacitated, so I only had to worry about recovering.

PG Phriday: Kubernetes Killed the High Availability Star

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Postgres Conference Seattle 2024 partnered up with PASS this year to present a united database front. They accepted my “Kubernetes Killed the High Availability Star” talk, which I graciously gave on the last day of the conference. The next talk in that room wasn’t for another hour, so I had plenty of time to talk shop with attendees, about the future of Postgres, high availability, and Kubernetes in general.

If you weren’t there and missed out on the fun, this is your chance to catch up and enjoy a few of my notorious bad puns along the way. Let me tell you why the concept of Postgres HA is dead.

PG Phriday: Whats Our Vector Victor

11 min read

Postgres Conference Seattle 2024 partnered up with PASS this year to present a united database front. They accepted my “What’s our Vector, Victor?” talk, which I graciously gave on the first day of the conference.

If you weren’t there and missed out on the fun, this is your chance to catch up and maybe get a bit more information that was cut for length. Let me tell you why RAG is the future, and how Postgres and pg_vectorize make it a reality.