About
Phil Vacca has been designing highly scalable applications for years. He has worked for and consulted with enterprises of vast and varied data needs, including some of the nation's largest insurers, defense industries, telecom providers, and many others. While always happy to build and improve Production facing applications, his favorite projects involve data warehousing and analysis. Currently he leads an effort at Mitel Networks to move all enterprise data to a single, streaming event-fed data lake, and a relational data warehouse built on the Postgres fork, Amazon Redshift.
Phil is an active speaker, and can be found extolling the virtues of the world's most advanced open source database as a member of pgMKE, the Milwaukee area PostgreSQL Users Group.
Phil Vacca has presented the following presentations
Cloudy With A Chance of Elephants
at
PgConf US Local: Ohio [PgConf.US]
presented by Phil Vacca
The popularity of the PostgreSQL database has never been higher. Now, all three of the biggest Cloud providers - AWS, MS Azure, and Google Cloud Platform - finally offer Postgres as a hosted service. Add to that one of the earliest and most familiar hosted PostgreSQL solutions, Heroku, and it certainly seems that it has never been easier to have a turn-key solution for the world's most advanced...
more Sat 30 2017 Postgres
All The Updates In the World
at
PostgresConf US 2018
Continuous Delivery on a Billion Row Database
presented by Phil Vacca
All The Updates In the World: Continuous Delivery on a Billion Row Database
A familiar world of magnificent waterfalls has slowly disappeared. Where once it was a rare occasion to see code released into the wild - in vast chunks and suddenly - we now strive to push the smallest features out as they are committed.
It's a lovely dream. Immediately from code-commit, our man Jenkins whisk...
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