PDXPUG: January meeting in < 2 weeks

NOTE: This month's meeting is one week earlier than our usual schedule, so
we don't conflict with SCALE (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/14x)

When: 6-8pm Thursday January 14, 2016
Where: Iovation
Who: Gabrielle Roth
What: RDS Postgres

Amazon integrated Postgres into their general Relational Database Services
(RDS) offerings July 1, 2014. RDS offers automatic failover, scalability,
and easy configuration, plus Amazon handles all the patching and most of
the upgrades for you! Their SDK supports many languages and includes a
robust CLI, if you want to automate management of your deployments. They
also support several popular Postgres extensions.

Of course, since it's a managed service, you can't do everything you might
expect or want to. We'll discuss the fun and quirky features I've
discovered in a year and a half of working with production RDS
deployments. Come find out what it's like to use RDS Postgres day-to-day.

(This is an updated version of my talk from last year.
https://pdxpug.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/pdxpug-january-meeting-next-week-2/
)

Gabrielle has been using Postgres since sometime in the version 7s and
thinks that the best part of using Open Source software is the culture of
sharing knowledge. She co-leads PDXPUG, the Portland PostgreSQL Users'
Group. Gabrielle's current areas of interest are monitoring, benchmarking,
and writing freaky SQL.

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If you have a job posting or event you would like me to announce at the
meeting, please send it along. The deadline for inclusion is 5pm the day
before the meeting.
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Our meeting will be held at Iovation, on the 32nd floor of the US Bancorp
Tower at 111 SW 5th (5th & Oak). It's right on the Green & Yellow Max
lines. Underground bike parking is available in the parking garage;
outdoors all around the block in the usual spots. No bikes in the office,
sorry!

Elevators open at 5:45 and building security closes access to the floor at
6:30.

When you arrive at the Iovation office, please sign in on the iPad at the
reception desk.

See you there!