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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.


Michael Glaesemann has presented the following presentations

    Michael Glaesemann Harnessing the Power of pgTAP in the Large at PGConf NYC 2014 [PgConf.US]

    presented by Michael Glaesemann

    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, ...

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    Michael Glaesemann Beyond JDBC: Creating a Custom Postgres driver for Clojure at PostgresConf US 2018

    presented by Michael Glaesemann

    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....

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