Scott Mead

Sr. Architect at Amazon Web Services

About

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

Scott Mead has presented the following presentations

    Jim Nasby Scott Mead All the Dirt on Vacuum: RDS edition at Postgres Conference 2020

    presented by Jim Nasby and Scott Mead

    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.

    Topics:

    • MVCC details
    • HOT overview
    • Identifying tuples to be vacuumed/frozen
    • Visibility and Freeze...
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    AWS Day
    Scott Mead Setting up PostgreSQL for Production in AWS at Postgres Conference 2020

    presented by Scott Mead

    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...

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    AWS Day
    Scott Mead Setting up PostgreSQL for Production in AWS at Postgres Conference

    presented by Scott Mead

    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...

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    Tue 19 2019 Ops and Administration
    David Rader Scott Mead Jan Wieck Denis Lussier OpenSCG Workshop: Hands on Oracle to PostgreSQL Migration at PGConf US 2017 [PgConf.US]

    presented by David Rader, Scott Mead, Jan Wieck, and Denis Lussier

    Join the OpenSCG team for a hands on look on how to migrate an application from Oracle to PostgreSQL.

    Scott Mead PostgreSQL DevOps with Chef & Puppet at PGConf US 2016 [PgConf.US]

    presented by Scott Mead

    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.

    Operations