Scott Mead
Sr. Architect at Amazon Web Services
Scott Mead is a Sr. Database Engineer at Amazon Web Services. He is a 14 year postgres DBA with a background in Enterprise Databases with a focus on large-scale fleet management and monitoring
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Past presentations
- MVCC details
- HOT overview
- Identifying tuples to be vacuumed/frozen
- Visibility and Freeze...
Vacuum can be one of the most challenging parts of managing a Postgres database. In this talk we'll walk through common vacuum related issues related to performance, space usage, and the dreaded wraparound. We'll discuss how to avoid these issues, as well as what RDS does to assist.
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In this tutorial we will be combining an extended deep dive on Amazon Relational Database Service along with a hands on lab using Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. As part of the deep dive we will cover the unique features of Amazon RDS for improved availability and durability. In addition, you will get hands on experience creating an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL for high availability and read scaling as...
In this tutorial we will be combining an extended deep dive on Amazon Relational Database Service along with a hands on lab using Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. As part of the deep dive we will cover the unique features of Amazon RDS for improved availability and durability. In addition, you will get hands on experience creating an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL for high availability and read scaling as...
Mar 19 2019
Join the OpenSCG team for a hands on look on how to migrate an application from Oracle to PostgreSQL.
There's a lot of tools capable of managing PostgreSQL configuration 'in-code'. These tools are capable of everything from deployment to auto-managing postgresql.conf. We'll look at how far you can and how far you SHOULD go with auto deployment tools and when you should go all in vs. draw the line.