Postgres Open 2015

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Wednesday September 16 (Tutorials)

• Hands-on Administration of PostgreSQL (Stephen Frost)
• Big Postgres: Scaling PostgreSQL in a BigData environment (Jim Mlodgenski)
• Binary Replication 101 (Josh Berkus)
• Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL (Grant McAlister)

Thursday September 17

• Open Source and Higher Education Keynote (Lacey Williams Henschel)

• Improving postgres' concurrency (Andres Freund)
• Monitoring PostgreSQL (Kevin Kempter)
• Welcome to Postgres! (Michael Alan Brewer)

• All the Dirt on VACUUM (Jim Nasby)
• Easy Statistical Analysis in PostgreSQL with PL/R (Joe Conway)
• What's new in PostgreSQL 9.5 (Magnus Hagander)

• PostgreSQL Federation: Joining to Oracle, Mongo and more... (Jim Mlodgenski)
• Securing Your Database in Amazon RDS (Sarah Conway)
• WAL, standbys and Postgres 9.5 (Michael Paquier)

• File:BECOMING A SQL GURU.pdf (Stella Nisenbaum)
• PostgreSQL Administration (Simon Riggs)
• Using Postgres XL (Richard Silva)

• Audit Logging for PostgreSQL (David Steele)
• Explain Explained (Josh Berkus)
• Logical decoding: a new world of data exchange applications for PostgreSQL (Álvaro Hernández)

Lightning Talks

• postgresql.us (Rob Treat)
• Voting PostgreSQL (Magnus Hagander)
• Better Constraints (James Coleman)
• Sorting Improvements (Peter Geoghegan)
• test_factory (Jim Nasby)
• plpgsql dependencies (Steve Randall)

Friday, September 18

• Database Hardware Selection Guidelines (Bruce Momjian)
• Don't Forget The Elephant (Keith Fiske)
• PostgreSQL in Containers at Scale (Jeff McCormick, Steven Pousty)

• 14 Calm Years of PostgreSQL in Critical Messaging (John Mason Scott)
• PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS - What's new and lessons learned (Grant McAlister)
• The Bones of Highly Available Postgres File:Bones of ha.pdf (Shaun Thomas)

• PostgreSQL in PaxosLand: Distributed storage and strict consistency (Srivathsava Rangarajan)
• PostgreSQL Scalability (Simon Riggs)
• Streaming SQL with PipelineDB (Derek Nelson)

• BDR From the Perspective of a QA Engineer (Simon Riggs)
• PostgreSQL Performance & Benchmarking (Mark Wong)
• UPSERT use cases (Peter Geoghegan)

• A TARDIS for your ORM - application level time travel in PostgreSQL (Magnus Hagander)
• File:Pgopen2015 encoding.ppt File:Pgopen15 Scales.pdf Measurements, scales and encoding schemes (Joe Celko)
• pg_classy: SQL Metacode System (code that writes code) (Jon Erdman (aka StuckMojo))

• Creating PostgreSQL-as-a-Service at Scale (Sean Chittenden)
• Pacemaker and PostgreSQL from the ground up (Brian Cosgrove)
• Searching Text with PostgreSQL: A Primer (Phil Vacca)