Databases

Hi everyone
We're delving into DATABASES for our next meetup.

Matt Houghton - Data Architect at CDL
Migrating 600 databases to AWS, making them better, faster & cheaper

In this session CDL, an InsurTech from the UK, will walk through the entire journey of real-life large-scale database migration from Oracle on premise to PostgreSQL in AWS. We’ll cover the process and share unique details, hits and tips covering zero downtime database migration, change data capture and schema conversion. We’ll show how we made the databases not only cheaper by removing licence costs but also how we sped up our development teams by proving self-service features and made our applications run faster. Finally, we’ll share the extra features we built for PostgreSQL with the AWS Database Freedom team that were missing and how we open sourced these.

Tony Mullen - Senior RDS Specialist SA at AWS
Amazon Aurora Serverless v2

Learn about Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 which is an on- demand, automatic scaling configuration for Amazon Aurora. It adjusts capacity in fine-grained increments to provide just the right amount of database resources for an application’s needs. You don’t need to manage database capacity, and you pay for only the resources consumed by your application.

Date: Wednesday May 8
Time: 18:00-20:00
Venue: Theatre Royal, Grey Street, Newcastle

Many thanks to our sponsors Accenture for hosting us on the night.
Hope to see you all there!