Postgres Adelaide Meetup

We are thrilled to announce the very first Adelaide Postgres Meetup! We're kicking off this brand-new local community with an evening of great conversations, knowledge sharing, and connecting the local database crowd.

Whether you're deep in PostgreSQL production workloads, evaluating it for your next project, mid-migration, or simply curious about what Postgres can do, come along and help us build Adelaide's Postgres community from the ground up.

The format is informal: Technical talks, hands-on insights, open discussion, and plenty of time to chat with fellow attendees over drinks.

What to expect:

• Technical talks from people working with PostgreSQL day-to-day
• Real-world war stories and lessons learned
• Open Q&A and community discussion
• Networking and building Adelaide's new Postgres community

Who should attend: Everyone's welcome, whether you're a:

• Database administrator
• Developer or application engineer
• Platform or DevOps engineer
• Solution architect
• Student or anyone curious about PostgreSQL

Talk 1 (20 min) - "Migrating to PostgreSQL: Performance, Flexibility, and Freedom for Government Agencies" – Eugene Bobkov (Blue Crystal Solutions)

• Description: Eugene will share real-world lessons from migrating production systems to PostgreSQL, covering performance challenges in the existing environment, key architectural decisions made during the migration, the flexibility gained, and key takeaways.

Talk 2 (20 min) - "An Offline AI DBA with a Security Clearance: A Live Postgres Query-Tuning Exercise" - Robins Tharakan (Amazon Web Services)

• Description: Robins will showcase an air-gapped AI assisting with Postgres slow queries - on airplane mode - and let the Postgres planner grade its advice live. What it gets right, what it gets confidently wrong, and why the final call still belongs to the human reading the plan.

A fun little extra! - The Adelaide, Melbourne & Sydney Postgres meetups are running the same evening, so we're hoping to do a quick ~5-minute video hello between the three rooms - just a friendly wave to connect the communities as Adelaide gets started. (Nothing more than a quick hello - each city runs its own talks.)

Event Details: Date: Wednesday, 22nd July, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM

Sponsor: Blue Crystal Solutions have graciously offered to host and cater the evening, with 2 talks on the night!

Venue: Blue Crystal Solutions, 49-51 Hindmarsh Square, Adelaide