New York City PostgreSQL User Group

Database Hardware Selection

May 7, 2012 · 6:30 PM
AppNexus

Database servers have hardware requirements different from other infrastructure software, specifically unique demands on I/O and memory. Join PostgreSQL core committer Bruce Momjian in a presentation that covers these differences and various I/O options and their benefits. Topics include solid-state drives (SSD), battery-backed RAID, controllers, and caching.

The meetup will take place at AppNexus, who will be generously providing pizza, beer, and soda as well.

Photo identification is required to enter the building.

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Anton "Awesome" Major

Please do. Would love to share that with the rest of my engineering and network operations team

0 · May 9, 2012
Jonathan S. Katz

Will post once the video is available - thanks

1 · May 9, 2012
David Choy

Hi I was there and saw you guys shot a video. Can I see that again since I was there late. Thanks

0 · May 9, 2012
R. Benson Evans

Interesting presentation; Programmers normally don't think about all the software layers in writing to disk and to a database. This was highlighted.

0 · May 8, 2012
wst

extremely useful

0 · May 8, 2012
Duke

Bruce delivered big time with a clear, focused, great informational session. Information was timely, up to data and completely relevant. No fluff.

0 · May 7, 2012
Gustavo Corral

Not up to speed with the way start-ups run databases : cheap!
How much performance does an SSD drive get me at a certain level of load ? What is the variation in load and how can I measure it ? What in-memory caching schemes can I use ? How can I know if my driver is any good ?

0 · May 7, 2012
Bruce Momjian

Sure, the slides are already online:

http://momjian.us/main/presenta...

If you click on "Show Locations" at the top, you will see a recording of a webcast of the presentation.

0 · May 6, 2012
Kevin Salisbury

I would love to attend but I am committed elsewhere. If there is a slide deck (or a video recording) of the presentation, will it be available for posting somewhere public (or perhaps emailed to those who couldn't make it?)

0 · May 6, 2012