My name is Justin Frye and what you are reading is not AI generated! I have spent the last 10+ years focusing on IT infrastructure (cloud and on prem), building scalable data stores, and contributing to Open Source. Proud to be a member of the NixOS community as maintainer of a few nixpkgs, serial Open Source contributor, Kaneo Core Team Member, and founder of Randoneering, LLC. Some of the tools I have created, such as pgFirstAid, provide users of all skill levels the ability to see the true functionality of their Postgres database server/instance.

While I use AI tooling in my workflow, I hold myself to the same standards as an engineer I did before; the code and product needs to be up to my standards as it is my name in the commit history. Not Claude's.

Proud dad of three and clearly married up, I tend to keep my personal life private.

Presentations

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Five Stages Of Grieving-Databases in Infrastructure as Code

You enter the call (or conference room) where you are greeted by some higher level executives and members of your Infrastructure team. They have been tasked with bootstrapping the company's IT Infrastructure and start building new resources with IaC. Luckily for you (or not), you have experience with this and are eager to prove your worth and show that DBAs can do more than yell at your poorly configured query or that you are using ORMs. While this situation happens to many of us, I rarely hear about the struggles folks have trying to implement a stateful resources (databases) in a stateless in environment consisting of stateless resources. 

For your pleasure and amusement, I plan to walk you through my experience implementing this exact task and align the different phases of the implementation with Dr. Kübler-Ross’s five stages of grieving. Sit back and enjoy a few laughs, memes, and positive outlook on how we continue to create more gray area in daily work.

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pgFirstAid

Easy-to-deploy, open source PostgreSQL function that provides a prioritized list of actions to improve database stability and performance. Inspired by Brent Ozar's FirstResponderKit for SQL Server, pgFirstAid is designed for everyone to use—not just DBAs! Get actionable health insights from your PostgreSQL database in seconds.

 

https://github.com/randoneering/pgFirstAid

 

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