As part of the countdown to PostgresConf US 2018, learn more about the engaging content and our speakers for this year in our Speaker Spotlight Series.
Tom Limoncelli is the SRE Manager at StackOverflow.com and author of Time Management for System Administrators (O'Reilly). He is co-author of The Practice of System and Network Administration (3rd edition just released) and The Practice of Cloud System Administration.
Tom will be presenting a half-day training on Monday, April 16 on "Personal Time Management: The Basics for Overloaded People." Read what he has to say about Postgres and why to attend his session:
Why PostgreSQL? What got you into it, and made you stick with it?
The startup I was at in 2003 needed a database. Since we did a lot of work with IP and network addresses, we picked PostgreSQL because it supports those as native types.
Tell us about your involvement with the greater Postgres community.
I'm new to the greater Postgres community. I've been a system administrator since 1988 and often speak on related topics.
What features should be developed/improved and released in the next major upgrade?
Anything that makes replication and failovers easier and more reliable.
Why should attendees come to your talk at PostgresConf US 2018? What would you like for them to take away from your session?
Time management: you will gain an additional day out of every week. Radical ideas: you'll learn how modern software ("distributed computing") is radically changing how we build systems and do operations. I'd like to give them hope for the future.
What is your favorite aspect of PostgresConf US?
That it's in my back yard! I live 10 miles from here!
What advice would you have for a Computer Science graduate or entry level developer who are interested in learning and engaging with Postgres?
Give yourself projects. Try to break things and then see if you can repair them. You'll learn more from recovering a failed system than anything else.
Bonus Question: You can invite any three living people from anywhere in the world to dinner. Who do you invite and why?
Obama (because I'd like to thank him), Steve Martin (because he has an amazing life story and is super smart), and Jennifer Lawrence (she also has an interesting life story). I also think that these three people would get along well.
Check out the full schedule for PostgresConf US 2018, and buy your tickets soon!