PostgreSQL User Group NL New Year meetup 2025

Dear PostgreSQL Enthusiasts,

Happy New Year! 🎉

As we step into 2025, we want to extend our warmest wishes to you. May this year bring you joy, success, and exciting opportunities.
We are grateful for your continued support and enthusiasm for the PostgreSQL community, and we are thrilled to invite you to the PostgreSQL User Meetup taking place on February 13, 2025, in Amsterdam.

We are happy to present you with an engaging and interesting program containing talks of Ruud Schilders and Ruud van der Gijp. As usual we have some space in the program reserved for anyone who wants to do a lightning talk. Please contact us through a personal message on meetup.com

This time around we are welcomed by JetBrains in Amsterdam. We are very grateful to them that they are willing to host us and provide us with food & drinks!

We hope to meet many of you at the meetup as this is a moment where PostgreSQL users can connect, share knowledge, and discuss the latest developments in the PostgreSQL ecosystem.

We look forward to a great meetup!

Feike Steenbergen
Gerard- Zuidweg

Meetup Program:

18.00 - 18.25:
Welcome, Beer & Pizza

18:25 – 18:30:
Opening

18:30 - 19:10
‘Mastodon and PostgreSQL - ...and then November happened’
By Ruud Schilders – DBA since 1998 and selfhoster
A story of the explosive growth of a Mastodon instance, along with the associated scalability issues, including those related to the PostgreSQL database.

Break

19.15 – 19.50
‘From 1 to over 200 HA PostgreSQL clusters in 6 months with
Kubernetes’
By Ruud van der Gijp – DevOps Nationale Politie

At the National Police, we have experienced impressive growth in our Software-as-a-Service platform over the past year by utilizing CloudNativePG on Kubernetes with Cilium as the CNI. This platform has helped us centralize data, reduce operational costs, and innovate faster. In this session, I will take you through our journey:
· How we grew from a single PostgreSQL cluster to more than 200
clusters.
· What challenges we encountered along the way and how we
overcame them.
· What benefits Kubernetes and CloudNativePG have brought us.
Be inspired by our experiences and discover how scalable data platforms can contribute to innovation within a complex organization.

19.50 - 20:00:
Lightning Talks

20:00- 20:30:
Wrap up and Hallway track