Morgan Howes

DBA at Procore Technologies

About

I am a Postgres DBA that gets to have fun solving the challenges that a hyper-growth unicorn SaaS company provide.

When there is a break from work, I ski, scuba, and generally try to be outside.

    Morgan Howes The Great Escape: On Prem to the Cloud with Postgres
    Sneaking a 14TB on prem monolith to AWS without anyone noticing.

    presented by Morgan Howes

    Discover how to move a 14 terabyte monolith database from a bare metal, on premise solution to Amazon Web Services (Aurora/RDS). Specifically, the focus is on how to move the data with high availability, minimal downtime, and still leave the option to go back to the old hardware. This combination of case study and tutorial goes into the technical details of how we worked through one issue aft...

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    Morgan Howes The Great Escape: On Prem to the Cloud with Postgres

    presented by Morgan Howes

    Join me in recounting the trials and tribulations of moving a 14 terabyte monolith database from a bare metal, on premise solution to Amazon Web Services (Aurora/RDS). Specifically, the focus is on how to move the data with high availability, minimal downtime, and still leave the option to go back to the old hardware.

    This combination of case study and tutorial goes into the technical detai...

    more

    Thu 19 2019 Ops and Administration