Linas Valiukas

Software Engineer at valiukas.dev

About

Linas has a bunch of varied, weird experience, including but not limited to building JavaScript-based public transport planners back in the day before "frontend" was even a thing, writing iOS keyboard apps optimized for typing when one's fingers are slippery from holding a pizza, and creating experimental spellcheckers for exotic hipster languages.

Five years ago, Linas has found himself in front of a massive PostgreSQL database, and has grown to love PostgreSQL's maturity and stability ever since.

Linas Valiukas has presented the following presentations

    Linas Valiukas Dealing with Gigantic Tables at Silicon Valley
    Coping strategies when you have 1+ TB of stuff in one place

    presented by Linas Valiukas

    One of the databases that I'm working on belongs to an academic project, and academia is notorious for their dislike of deleting data - in their eyes, every single byte has "future research potential" and so nothing is to be purged at any cost. Thus, research datasets have a tendency to grow to colossal sizes, and normal database management practices no longer apply - one has to put their own D...

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    Mon 15 2018 Data