PGConf Silicon Valley was excellent this year: good organization,
great speakers, and top-notch vibes in general. We were excited
to see everybody visiting (and crowding!) our booth and the
overall very positive community presence. Highlights included a
presentation about Postgres' use at TripAdvisor, a look at Amazon
RDS for Postgres, and consideration of system scalability and the
future of relational database management systems.
Baron Schwartz, VividCortex's own founder and CEO, was at the
Silicon Valley conference, and he's said that it was the
best PGConf he's been to yet. On November 18th, Baron even led a
breakout session, titled "Analyzing PostgreSQL Network Traffic
with vc-pgsql-sniffer," in which he explained both the principles
and practice that come together to result in VividCortex's
powerful sniffer tools. Even the questions asked at Baron's talk
were fantastic.
To watch a video of Baron's breakout session, find …
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