Simon Riggs

CEO at 2ndQuadrant

About

Simon Riggs is the Founder and CEO of 2ndQuadrant. With more than 30 years of experience in the Database Technology industry, he is one of the few major developers and committers to the open source PostgreSQL project having contributed in every release to date. He is also co-author of the "PostgreSQL Administration Cookbook" series.

Simon Riggs has presented the following presentations

    Simon Riggs Introduction to PostgreSQL and Kubernetes at Postgres Conference 2020

    presented by Simon Riggs

    Discover the new way of thinking about applications, IT processes, and systems in general using Kubernetes – the open source container orchestration platform. Join Simon Riggs, CEO of 2ndQuadrant, to receive an introduction to the platform for automating deployment, scaling, and operations of application containers across clusters of hosts.

    Starting with basics on Docker, the training course...

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    Ops and Administration
    Simon Riggs Postgres for the Financial Industry at Postgres Conference
    Features, Tools and Usage

    presented by Simon Riggs

    Covers the essential tools and utilities required by Financial Industry professionals. * High Availability (with and without BDR) * Online upgrades * Auditing & Certification * PCI-Compliant Security * Client tools and Monitoring * Performance tooling Covers both core PostgreSQL and 2ndQuadrant products and services.

    Tue 19 2019 Ops and Administration
    Simon Riggs Essential PostgreSQL11 Database Administration at Postgres Conference
    Fast and efficient DBA skills

    presented by Simon Riggs

    Update your PostgreSQL DBA knowledge to the latest version with this fast-paced training, showing how some important topics have changed over the last few releases. - Tables and Data - Scripts and testing - Performance - Maintenance Suitable for users of cloud and on-premise PostgreSQL databases. Uses excerpts from the book "PostgreSQL11 Database Admin Cookbook", presented directly by the...

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    Tue 19 2019 Ops and Administration
    Simon Riggs Keynote: PostgreSQL, the Hyperconverged database at Postgres Conference
    Multiple data models, multiple use cases

    presented by Simon Riggs

    Keynote for PgConf.US, as a result of being a Sponsor: Simon describes the ways in which PostgreSQL is capable of many use cases, catering for many different kinds of data model and data handling.

    Thu 21 2019 General Session
    Simon Riggs Restrictions on PostgreSQL Cloud DBaaS at PGConf US 2017 [PgConf.US]

    presented by Simon Riggs


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    PostgreSQL has many good features and works well in a variety of environments. Questions are frequently asked about "Why does PostgreSQL have this restriction?", and typical answers are along the lines of "err... PostgreSQL allows that, its just your cloud provider that blocks you from using that". So let's have a look at what restrictions are imposed by various clouds - what downsides are ther...

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    Operations
    Simon Riggs New Security Features in PostgreSQL 10.0 at PGConf US 2017 [PgConf.US]

    presented by Simon Riggs


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    Discussion of the new security features in PostgreSQL 10.0 - what features made it in and what features didn't, plus new releases of external security tools. Plus a recap of some important security features often overlooked by developers, and warnings to avoid certain options, and why.

    Simon Riggs Security Enhancements in Postgres 10 at PGConf US 2017 [PgConf.US]
    Security Enhancements in Postgres 10

    presented by Simon Riggs


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    Security Enhancements in Postgres 10

    Regulated Industry Summit
    Simon Riggs PostgreSQL Development at PGConf US 2016 [PgConf.US]

    presented by Simon Riggs

    Soup to nuts overview of PostgreSQL Development process, or How to write a patch for PostgreSQL: Design - Discussion - Development. Covers details of the process that will be of interest to introductory level observers through to would-be hackers. How can you help the PostgreSQL project?

    Internals
    Simon Riggs Row Level Security for PostgreSQL at PGConf NYC 2014 [PgConf.US]

    presented by Simon Riggs

    A talk about Privacy and Multi-Tenant Security requirements, features and implementation.

    Security
    Tom Kincaid Simon Riggs Internet of Things with PostgreSQL - Performance & Security at PostgresConf US 2018
    An in depth look at Postgres together IOT

    presented by Simon Riggs and Tom Kincaid

    Gartner predicts that there will be over 21 billion connected devices in the world by 2020 [https://www.gartner.com/doc/3299317]. More than anything else, this number drives all 3 Vs of Big Data: Velocity, Volume, Variety. The Internet of Things (IoT) causes some challenges for any database system: security, resource consumption, ingestion rate, replication as well as coping with various acces...

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    Cloud