August 27th 2020 6:30 to 8:30
RESCHEDULED! After missing July, we have moved this talk to this month.
Speakers: Grant Holly and Bryant Vinisky
Beginning in 2016, New Relic sought to design Megabase, its own RDS for its data center infrastructure. With one of the main authors Bryant Vinisky, we are going to talk about the design of megabase and how it works at New Relic. There will be a dive into how we run highly available Postgres databases with containers, as well as automating the life cycle management of databases. And of course, there will be live demos. It just wouldn’t be an authentic Grant presentation if there wasn’t a demo that blows up.
Stay tuned for more meeting updates. We will be cross posting on meetup for RSVPs. The meeting URL will go out around the day of the presentation. I look forward to seeing everyone.
About the speakers:
Bryant Vinisky has over 10 years of professional engineering experience with Linux and the open source ecosystem, with much of that time concentrated on supporting PostgreSQL in various roles. Currently Bryant is a Senior Software Engineer and tech lead on the Database team at New Relic where he’s spent the past four years focused on the reliability of the backend system that operates at significant scale. Over the past three years in particular, his time has been centered on the development and support of an internal platform for managing stateful containers that house PostgreSQL and MySQL databases.
I am Grant Holly, I’ve been running Postgres in production since 9.2. I work with Bryant on the database engineering team at New Relic. Lately I’ve been into golang, career mentoring, and learning Spanish. I co-organize the Portland PostgreSQL User Group with Mark Wong and Jason Owen.
Meeting link: https://meet.jit.si/pdxpugaugustmeetup