Michael Glaesemann
Senior Data Architect at See Spot Code
Michael Glaesemann was hired as the first full-time DBA at MeetMe (then myYearbook). While there, he was been a part of growing the database infrastructure from one Postgres instance to over 30, supporting an active social networking site reaching over 1 million active users per day and top-10 grossing social networking apps on both iOS and Android platforms in the US.
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Testing database schema and deploying schema changes is a challenge and still-developing art. At MeetMe, managing this across 30-odd Postgres instances in a systematic way utilizing open source tools has lead to the MeetMe Postgres Harness. Along with gerrit and Jenkins, the MeetMe database team has created a workflow that allows them to develop database schema concurrently with pgTAP testing, ...
JDBC is a popular standard database client API for Java. It's great for portability across database server backends, and the [PostgreSQL JDBC Driver][pgjdbc] is a solid implementation. As with many standards, there's an expected common denominator for behavior. There are circumstances, however, when that common denominator limits what's actually available from a specific underlying system....