Conference Sessions - PostgresOpen 2018

The following list contains all the talks that have been approved so far for PostgresOpen 2018. Note that they may not yet have been scheduled! You can find the full conference information at the conference website.

Regular Session

• 10 ways to load data into Postgres (Regina Obe)
• A Beginner's Tale of Migrating Column Types in PostgreSQL (Belinda Adam)
• Add Redis to Postgres to Make Your Microservice Go Boom! (Dave Nielsen)
• A look at the Elephants trunk - PostgreSQL 11 (Magnus Hagander)
• A New Hope for Database Migrations (Scott Milliken)
• ANSI, Schmansi! (Sehrope Sarkuni)
• A scalable, versioned document store in PostgreSQL (Art Gillespie)
• Bloat in PostgreSQL: A taxonomy (Peter Geoghegan)
• Building a real time analytics API at scale (Sylvain Friquet)
• Cleaning out crocodiles teeth with PostgreSQL indexes - a story on all the index types in PG (Louise Grandjonc)
• Computational Complexity and the Query Planner: Applying (Not So) Dusty Academics to Everyday Query Writing (James Coleman)
• Connecting Galaxies (Alyssa Ritchie, Boris Novikov, Henrietta Dombrovskaya)
• Connection Pooling 101 (Samantha Billington)
• Crashing Postgres for Fun and Laughs (Brian Faherty)
• Debugging the Postgres Planner (Melanie Plageman)
• Don't Panic: Use the PostgreSQL Operator for Kubernetes and OpenShift (Sarah Conway)
• Dude, where's my byte? (Srivathsava Rangarajan)
• Five data models for sharding and which is right (Craig Kerstiens)
• Hacking with PostgreSQL for fun and not so much profit (Piotr Jarmuż)
• Hello Greenplum (Bradford D. Boyle)
• HOT - Understanding this important Update optimization (Grant McAlister)
• How PostgreSQL Extension APIs are Changing the Face of Relational Databases (Ozgun Erdogan)
• How to deploy PostgreSQL using Kubernetes (Peter Tormey)
• How to Monitor Your Database (Baron Schwartz)
• How to write Spatial SQL: Put some "where" in your WHERE clause (Paul Ramsey)
• Hypothetical Partitioning for PostgreSQL (Yuzuko Hosoya)
• Just in time compilation in PostgreSQL (Andres Freund)
• Lessons from building VeniceDB (Min Wei)
• Parallelism in PostgreSQL 11 (Thomas Munro)
• PostgreSQL Locking Issues: a talk for devs and DBAs (Quinn Weaver)
• PostgreSQL Stored Procedures (Mark Wong)
• The Evolution of Postgres High Availability (Shaun Thomas)
• TimescaleDB: Re-engineering PostgreSQL as a time-series database (David Kohn)
• Using JSON in PostgreSQL (Andrew Dunstan)
• WAL: Everything you want to know (Devrim Gündüz)
• With a smart enough proxy, you can do anything (Brian Cloutier)
• Your Herd of Elephants: PostgreSQL Replication (Christophe Pettus)
• ZomboDB: Making Postgres & Elasticsearch Work Together Like it's 2018 (Emmett Plant, Eric B. Ridge)

Training

• Architecting real-time analytics for your customers (Marco Slot)
• Hands on with Azure Database for PostgreSQL ​ (Byju Sukumaran, Diana Putnam, Teja Mupparti)
• Let's Build a Complex, Real-Time Data Management Application...before the session ends! (Jonathan S. Katz)
• PostgreSQL Administration Training (Keith Fiske)
• PostgreSQL Application Development With Node.js (Sehrope Sarkuni)
• The World of PostGIS (Regina Obe, Regina Obe and Leo Hsu)