PostgreSQL Meetup

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Dear Chicago PUG members! Our April meetup is scheduled for Tuesday, April 16.

Our speaker will be Randy Chertkow, a Principal Engineer at CockroachDB. He will present a talk "How to Achieve High-Availability PostgreSQL with CockroachDB"

Talk Summary:
CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database at scale for cloud native. It was Inspired by Spanner, but created as an open-source Postgres-compatible database with strong ACID guarantees. It gives an alternative to a standalone Postgres server to answer the most important questions we have to handle after we take our databases into production: How can I keep the database from going down? How can I migrate it between clouds? And, considering it's a cluster, how can you keep the database instances consistent with each other?

CockroachDB takes on these challenges by allowing you to write your Postgres apps as if you're talking to a single instance: your SQL code works the same way and you use standard Postgres drivers. But instead of replicating the data, the data is automatically written to a raft-consensus cluster that guarantees serializable isolation to stay consistent automatically.

CockroachDB is easy to play with in a lab and this talk will show you how. Your database can then seamlessly migrate to the cloud, and even scale between datacenters giving your Postgres database flexibility as you move from development through production. Come to this session to see how this technology works and learn how to download the open source and work with it in your own environment.

As always, doors will be opened at 5:30 with pizza arriving at approximately the same time, and the presentation will start promptly at 6 PM. We have the space till 8 PM, so there will be plenty of time for questions and networking.

Hope to see you there!

Hettie Dombrovskaya, Chicago PUG Co-Organizer