Postgres Open 2013

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Monday September 16

• PostgreSQL Data Type Safari (Jonathan Katz)
• Surviving Server Overload (Greg Smith)
• Database Normalization for Everybody <Part 1>, <Part 2> (Brent Friedman)
• Introduction to SQLAlchemy (Mike Bayer)

Tuesday September 17

• Keynote (Jesse Noller)

• Scaling Postgres (Denish Patel)
• What's New in PostgreSQL 9.3 (Magnus Hagander)
• Taking Advantage of Custom Background Workers (Michael Pacquier)

• Query Planning Gone Wrong (Robert Haas)
• Recovering from a Damaged Cluster (Robert Bernier)
• Middleware is Dead! (David Benoit)

• Sane Schema Management With Alembic (Selena Deckelmann)
• Postgres what they really use (Craig Kersteins)
• Postgres-XC dynamic cluster management (Koichi Suzuki)

• Federating Queries Using postgres_fdw (John Melesky)
• Managing PostgreSQL with Puppet (Steve Singer)
• My experience with embedding PostgreSQL (Jignesh Shah)

• Concurrency in Postgres (Peter Geoghegan)
• New approach to resolve Object-relational impedance mismatch (Henrietta Dombrovskaya)
• Case Study: Converting the CATME application from MySQL to Postgres (Julie Baumler)

Lightning Talks

• IPython Notebook: your new SQL client (Catherine Devlin)
• NoSQL in 5 minutes (Ines Sombra)
• Publish Your Extensions on PGXN (Kirk Roybal)
• Configuration Managment (Mark Mzyk)
• JSON, Speed, and User Groups (Jonathan Katz)
• Blackhole FDW (Andrew Dunstan)
• Choosing the "D"/Doctor (Denish Patel)
• OHAI, my name is Chelnik! Postgres Open 2013 Report (Mark Wong)
• New Tools (Greg Stark)
• Postgres Enterprise Manager (Dave Page & Tom Kincaid)

Wednesday September 18

• Postgres Plus Cloud Database (Hans Hrasna (Tom Kincaid))
• Writing portable postgreSQL-backed network applications for the open cloud (Ryan Jarvinen)
• JackDB - Database Development In Your Web Browser (Sehrope Sarkuni)

• Inside PostgreSQL Shared Memory (Bruce Momjian)
• Geographically Distributed Parallel Databases – A Reality! (Christine Normile)
• How Postgres is different from (read BETTER than) your database (Gurjeet Singh)

• Replication Refresh (Simon Riggs)
• When PostgreSQL Can't, You Can (Keith Fiske)
• Multi-Database Collaboration and Extract-Transform-Load with HTSQL (Clark C. Evans)

• A Comparison of PostgreSQL Encryption Options (Syed Faisal Akber, Dong Ye)
• Using Postgres FDW w/ a sharded PostgreSQL Database (Stephen Frost)
• SQL database server Requests from the Browser (David Keeney)

• Using JSON with Postgres 9.3 (Andrew Dunstan)
• PostgreSQL on ZFS: backup, replication, disaster recovery, and more (Keith Paskett)
• PostgreSQL Backup and Recovery Methods (Kevin Kempter)

• Scalable Uniques in Postgres - HyperLogLog (Craig Kerstiens)
• NewSQL: Leveraging PostgreSQL (John S. Jones)
• Secure your webapp passwords in PostgreSQL (Magnus Hagander)