PostgreSQL Meetup

Dear Chicago PUG members,

Our next meetup is scheduled for October at 5-30 PM at the DRW Training Center 540 W. Madison, 25 floor.

A couple of reminders:

-This is a high-security building, which means the names of all participants should be communicated no later than 8 AM on the day of the event, and all participants must present a government-issued id to be admitted. Registration for all in-person events will be closed by 7-30 AM the day of the event.
- The food order will be placed two days before the event, so I strongly encourage everybody planning to attend to RSVP by October 16.
-If you plan to attend virtually, please RSVP here.

My sincere apologies for the Zoom mix-up on September 19! The recorded version of the event will be available. If you will experience any Zoom issues in the future please try to contact me directly by sending a meetup DM.

Please RSVP here only if you are attending in person.

Since we have trouble accessing registration forms, please make sure to communicate your first and last names to me via DM if they are not listed in your profile.

Event Details

On October 18, Chicago PUG will host Aerospike, who has been presenting at our events for a number of years, and we can't wait to find out what they will present this time!

Speaker: Tim Faulkes, Chief Developer Advocate, Aerospike

Talk title: How do you augment the power of Postgres with the speed of a NoSQL database?

Talk Description:

No database is perfect, and large organizations are leaning more towards polyglot architectures, where the best tool is used for a particular use case. Postgres is a superb relational database but requirements of millions of reads or writes per second across vast data volumes in the many terabyte range or even petabyte range is outside its capabilities. With the application of real-time AI models becoming increasingly common, these sort of requirements are becoming normal.

In this talk, led by Tim Faulkes, the Chief Dev Advocate at Aerospike, he will examine how to augment the power of Postgres with the speed of Aerospike, utilizing both databases for the problems they solve best. Additionally, he will compare and contrast the data models of the two databases and look at how some of the practices which are normal in Postgres are not always the most efficient when applied to a NoSQL database like Aerospike.

We are looking forward to a lively discussion

Agenda:

- Hettie, DRW: Updates on upcoming PostgreSQL events
- Tim Faulkes: How do you augment the power of Postgres with the speed of a NoSQL database?
- Q&A and networking

The doors will open at 5-30, with food arriving at the same time, and the talks will start promptly at 6 PM.

Please be on time! You might not be able to get in on the 25th floor after 6!

As usual, I hope to see as many of you as possible in person!

Hettie Dombrovskaya,
Chicago PUG Local Organizer