About us
CloudAustin is a community for Austin area technology practitioners interested in learning and sharing about their experiences with cloud computing, DevOps, containerization, and other cutting edge technology architecture and practice.
We've been around for over 10 years. Our meetings are open to all, and has a mix of developers, systems/ops/DevOps, other technical (security, QA), sales and marketing, and product development folks attending regularly.
We have monthly meetings (free admission and we try to get sponsors to buy food for us) on the third Tuesday evening of the month. We are always looking for volunteers to speak or demo at the meetings and for sponsors to buy the food.
Interested in speaking? Pitch a talk here!
Interested in sponsoring? Send us a note!
Upcoming events
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PostgreSQL Troubleshooting in the Real World
Education Service Center Region 13, 5701 Springdale Rd, Austin, TX 78723, USA, Austin, TX, USThis month's Cloud Austin Meetup will be hosted at ECS Region 13, the new home for Cloud Austin! We're being joined by the Austin Postgres User Group this month! They're back in business, and they'll be having their next event two days after us.
Our speaker, Umair Shahid from Stormatics, is also one of the new hosts for the Austin Postgres User Group. This talk was just presented at Postgres Summit US!
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When we walked in, every query running longer than three minutes was being killed by a cron job. That cron job was the only thing keeping the system standing, and it was hiding everything that was actually broken. Core financial reports were taking over thirty minutes to run, most of them never finishing. CPU was pinned, IOPS were spiking, and bulk delete operations on operational tables were taking more than two hours.
This talk walks through the effort on a high-volume Odoo deployment, with the actual numbers from the engagement. Phase one was about stopping the bleeding: right-sizing the resources and tuning parameters against the observed workload. Reports that previously failed to complete in over thirty minutes now finish in under two minutes. Phase two was about finding what was structurally broken: a multi-day measurement window using pg_gather against real production traffic, the discovery of nine high-volume transactional tables with missing foreign key indexes, and a targeted index strategy that the workload immediately validated. Bulk deletes that previously took more than 120 minutes now complete in approximately 62 minutes. Temporary file generation dropped from 280 GB per day to 192.9 GB per day. Read IOPS spikes during business hours fell from 10–15 per day to 5–7 per day.
The talk's central argument is uncomfortable but useful: every safety mechanism that "fixes" a performance problem without addressing root cause is a tarp over the hole in the floor. The teams that get out of this trap learn to measure twice. Once urgently, to stop the bleeding so the business can keep running. Once patiently, with a real observation window, to find what is actually broken.
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Umair Shahid is the founder of Stormatics, a specialist database services firm built to Elevate PostgreSQL in production. He works with fintechs, SaaS companies, and enterprises to design and run production-grade systems: resilient architectures, performance under load, security hardening, and migrations from proprietary databases across cloud and on-prem environments.With more than two decades in the ecosystem, Umair is a subject matter expert who is regularly invited to speak at industry conferences. He publishes practical blogs and benchmark-driven white papers reaching more than 15,000 readers each month.
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The Twelve Clouds of Christmas, Year 16
Education Service Center Region 13, 5701 Springdale Rd, Austin, TX 78723, USA, Austin, TX, USIt's our December tradition - a dozen (or more) 5 minute lightning demos/talks from the members of Cloud Autin and our sister Meetups. If you're interested in speaking (and of course you should!) just leave a comment below and we'll add you to the list!
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Speakers
Want to speak? Email (austin-cug-admin@googlegroups.com) or comment below with name and talk title to get on the list. Talks are OK, demos are better, and there is a strict 5-minute limit. Show off whatever you're working on! Anyone can speak, but no sales pitches please.- Sophia Solomon - Holiday Observability: How to “Rudolph” Your Digital Sleigh'
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Sponsors
Want to sponsor? Super! For 12 Clouds we usually have lots, multiple food/treats, drinks, door prizes... Contact us, you bring it to the meeting, and we'll list you here and you get a 2 minute pitch. (We don't handle money).- Food - Autopic
The More the Merrier
If your local tech user group wants to just pile onto this instead of trying to schedule a meeting near the holidays are welcome to call this their official December meeting too, sure! Comment to the effect of "add in XX" below and then point your members to this invite! You can also post it on your own Meetup but please ask members to also RSVP here because this will have the correct meeting link when the time comes.Previous Years
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