About

With almost two decades of building database-backed, mission critical web systems under his belt, Robert currently spends his days running US operations for credativ, an international provider of open source services and support. Both an author and speaker at conferences worldwide, Robert is a recognized expert within the industry on topics such as Open Source, databases, and managing operations at scale. He occasionally blogs at http://xzilla.net.


Robert Treat has presented the following presentations

    Robert Treat ADVANCED INT->BIGINT CONVERSIONS at Silicon Valley 2022

    presented by Robert Treat

    It's 2021 and we are still dealing with integer overflow. Just a few months ago I came within 24 hours of watching one of the worlds tech unicorns come to a stop due to possible int overflow problems. Join me while I discuss the nature of the problem, why we still see it today, and cover many of the various options to work your way through a pending int overflow. I also talk about some of the m...

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    Fri 8 2022 Ops
    Robert Treat DevOps On ACID at Postgres Conference 2020
    DevOps culture for the practicing DBA

    presented by Robert Treat

    There are multiple paths towards DevOps nirvana, but all too many "digital transformations" overlook one of the most critical pieces of any companies infrastructure: the database. But for those involved in the area of database management, you can't ignore the changes DevOps is making in the tech industry, and you also can't close your eyes and just "sprinkle on the Kubernetes" and hope it all g...

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    Ops and Administration
    Robert Treat Logical Replication Live! at Postgres Conference 2020
    (it's a live demo... what could go wrong?)

    presented by Robert Treat

    Postgres has a lot of ways to do replication and other forms of multi-server environments, but logical replication is one of the most useful. Want to know why? In this talk we'll talk about:

    • a (very) brief history of replication in Postgres • the whats and hows of logical replication • differences between Postgres 10, 11, and 12 • good use cases for logical replication • not good use c...

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    Distributed SQL