Baron Schwartz

CEO at VividCortex

About

Baron is the founder and CEO of VividCortex, the best way to see what your production database servers are doing. Baron has written a lot of open source software, and several books. He’s focused his career on learning and teaching about performance and observability of systems generally (including the view that teams are systems and culture influences their performance), and databases specifically.

Baron Schwartz has presented the following presentations

    Baron Schwartz PostgreSQL Performance Theory Made Practical at PGConf Local: Philly 2017 [PgConf.US]
    PostgreSQL Performance Theory Made Practical

    presented by Baron Schwartz

    Like most people, I've Googled for advice and recommended best practices for PostgreSQL performance, but I always wondered: are we there yet? How do I know if my performance is optimized? What if I could still get better performance?

    Then one day I discovered Cary Millsap, the light-bulb turned on, and I found the answers. (For Oracle, but it started me on the path that led me to today.) It ...

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    PostgreSQL
    Baron Schwartz How To Index Your Database at PostgresConf US 2018

    presented by Baron Schwartz

    Do you know what database indexes are and how they work? Do they seem hard to understand? They don't have to be. The basic principles you need to know are simple and easy to remember. And developers need to know the basics of indexing: your DBAs can't save you, because discovering you need an index after you deploy a feature is often too little, too late. This talk will give you the fundamental...

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    Fri 20 2018 Development