Simon Riggs
CEO at 2ndQuadrant
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.
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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...
Postgres for the Financial Industry
Features, Tools and Usage
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.
Mar 19 2019
Essential PostgreSQL11 Database Administration
Fast and efficient DBA skills
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...
Mar 19 2019
Keynote: PostgreSQL, the Hyperconverged database
Multiple data models, multiple use cases
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.
Mar 21 2019
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...
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.
Security Enhancements in Postgres 10
Security Enhancements in Postgres 10
Security Enhancements in Postgres 10
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?
A talk about Privacy and Multi-Tenant Security requirements, features and implementation.
Internet of Things with PostgreSQL - Performance & Security
An in depth look at Postgres together IOT
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...
