PDXPUG February Meeting Recap

Mark & I left David Wheeler in charge of the PDXPUG February meeting while we were at SCALE last week.

Here’s David’s report:
—
This week Dave Kerr discussed using Bucardo mutli-master replication to gradually migrate a production database from EC2 to RDS. This work allowed his team to switch back and forth between the two systems with the assurance that the data would be the same on both. It also allowed them a fallback in case the RDS database didn’t work out: the S3 system would still be there. The discussion allowed those present to complain about Bucardo, EC2, RDS, and the French.
—
Thanks!

PDXPUG: February meeting in two weeks

When: 6-8pm Thu Feb 19, 2015
Where: Iovation
Who: David Kerr
What: Using Bucardo to Migrate your Pg database to RDS with minimal downtime

As a followup to January’s RDS discussion, Dave Kerr works through strategies to move your existing Postgres database into RDS.

Using Bucardo and Master/Master Replication we can achieve a migration to RDS with minimal or no downtime.

Dave will show some tools and techniques so help facilitate this transition as well as go over the idiosyncrasies of using Bucardo with RDS.

—

Our meeting will be held at Iovation, on the 32nd floor of the US Bancorp Tower at 111 SW 5th (5th & Oak). It’s right on the Green & Yellow Max lines. Underground bike parking is available in the parking garage; outdoors all around the block in the usual spots. No bikes in the office, sorry!

Elevators open at 5:45 and building security closes access to the floor at 6:30.

The building is on the Green & Yellow Max lines. Underground bike parking is available in the parking garage; outdoors all around the block in the usual spots.

See you there!

PDXPUG: January Lab Next Week: postgres_fdw

When: Thu Jan 29, 6pm-8pm
Where: Renewable Funding, 400 SW 6th Ave

We’ll go over Foreign Data Wrappers, focusing on the Postgres FDW.

Our labs are casual, attendee-led affairs with no agenda set in advance. The goal is to share what we know & learn together.

Show up with a couple of Pg databases – they can be on the same cluster or different ones, doesn’t really matter. One of them should have at least one table with data in it.

We do need to know who’s coming so we can notify building security, so please sign up in advance here.

Grab dinner at the carts & come on over!

PDXPUG: January Meeting addendum

PostgreSQL Core Team member Magnus Hagander is here in Stumptown, and will be attending next week’s meeting. Come on by & say hello!

PDXPUG: January meeting next week

When: 6-8pm Thu Jan 15, 2015
Where: Iovation
Who: Gabrielle Roth
What: RDS Postgres

Amazon integrated Postgres into their general Relational Database Services (RDS) offerings July 1, 2014. RDS offers automatic failover, scalability, and easy configuration, plus Amazon handles all the patching and upgrades for you! Their SDK supports many languages and includes a robust CLI, if you want to automate management of your deployments. They also support several popular Postgres extensions.

Of course, since it’s a managed service, you can’t do everything you might expect or want to. In this talk, I’ll discuss the fun, the quirky, and the downright maddening features I’ve discovered working with production RDS deployments. Come find out what it’s like to use RDS Postgres day-to-day.

—

Our meeting will be held at Iovation, on the 32nd floor of the US Bancorp Tower at 111 SW 5th (5th & Oak). It’s right on the Green & Yellow Max lines. Underground bike parking is available in the parking garage; outdoors all around the block in the usual spots. No bikes in the office, sorry!

Elevators open at 5:45 and building security closes access to the floor at 6:30.

The building is on the Green & Yellow Max lines. Underground bike parking is available in the parking garage; outdoors all around the block in the usual spots.

We’ll go to Huber’s for after-meeting socializing.

See you there!

PDXPUG December Lab; no regular December meeting

As is now our tradition, we will not have a regular meeting this month. Go to the Winter Coders’ Social instead.

We are, however, having a lab night to close out the year!

When: Thu Dec 4, 6pm-8pm
Where: Renewable Funding, 400 SW 6th Ave

Mark Wong is going to take us on a tour of Bi-Directional Replication.

This lab will require some prep work, as BDR uses a patched version of 9.4. Don’t let that put you off attending though, as you can always pair with someone else.

We do need to know who’s coming so we can notify building security, so please sign up in advance here.

Grab dinner at the carts & come on over!

PDXPUG: November meeting in two weeks

When: 6-8pm Thu Nov 20, 2014
Where: Iovation
What: 9.4 party!

As discussed at last month’s meeting, we’re going to check out some of the new 9.4 features. It will help if you already have 9.4 installed on your laptop, but if you’re new & don’t know how to do that, just show up & we’ll help you out.

If you’re a Vagrant user, try this: https://github.com/softwaredoug/vagrant-postgres-9.4

Our meeting will be held at Iovation, on the 32nd floor of the US Bancorp Tower at 111 SW 5th (5th & Oak). It’s right on the Green & Yellow Max lines. Underground bike parking is available in the parking garage; outdoors all around the block in the usual spots. No bikes in the office, sorry!

Elevators open at 5:45 and building security closes access to the floor at 6:30.

The building is on the Green & Yellow Max lines. Underground bike parking is available in the parking garage; outdoors all around the block in the usual spots.

See you there!