Rich MacDonald will present this month about his PostgreSQL data pipeline project. Rich’s app ingests large amounts of data with a ‘small chunks with transactions approach’ . This supports a huge project and he has run into some fun edge cases for data ingesting and transactions. Rich is going to present on the whiteboard with his problem case and current solutions. We’ll leave a lot of time for group discussion - and who knows maybe we can give Rich ideas for how to make his data pipeline even better.
Rich has PhD in Chemical Engineering from KU with research in thermodynamics, numeric-methods, and statistics. He got started with FORTRAN punchcards and Smalltalk, learning databases back in the 90s from the originals like Codd, Date, and Darwen. Currently he’s a full-stack Java programmer with Mobile Reasoning in Lenexa and is focused on defense industry applications If you've never met Rich before, he's a fascinating guy.
As with our other meetings, we’ll meet in the library on the bottom floor of the Lenexa City Center library and then go across the street to the Lenexa Public Market for snacks and refreshments.
