Morgan Howes
DBA at Procore Technologies
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.
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Past presentations
The Great Escape: On Prem to the Cloud with Postgres
Sneaking a 14TB on prem monolith to AWS without anyone noticing.
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...
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...
Sep 19 2019