Elizabeth is a developer advocate at Snowflake on the Postgres and Open Source team. Elizabeth is passionate about PostgreSQL and hosts a online Postgres Meetup for All and is on the board of the United States PostgreSQL Association (PgUS). She also co-hosts PostGIS Day. Elizabeth enjoys writing about Postgres for Newbies and teaching people about databases whenever she gets the chance. Elizabeth hails from Lawrence, Kansas and spends most of her free time pretending like she lives on a farm in the 1860s.

Presentations

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PostgreSQL Hands-On Training Day

A full PostgreSQL training day adjacent to the SCaLE LA event. 6 hours total, running for a full day as a single track (with 90 minute lunch break). Attendees can attend some or all of the event. Aimed both at new Postgres users and those migrating from other db systems. 

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HOW TO TAME A MASTODON: LESSONS FOR POSTGRESQL AT SCALE

Managing and running PostgreSQL can pose interesting challenges when you’re operating databases at a large scale. This talk will cover some of the things we’ve encountered in the last year working with a 25TB+ PostgreSQL database like managing one large single table, high transaction loads, replica management, and high transaction load.

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