Next Meeting: March 20, 2008 - Managing internet services: using the right tool for the job

selenamarie — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:06:21 +0000

TOPIC: Managing internet services: using the right tool for the job SPEAKER: Ed Sawicki WHEN: March 20, 2008, 7pm WHERE: FreeGeek, 1731 SE 10th Ave, Portland, OR 97214 Also: What the heck is the United States PostgreSQL Association?, Selena Deckelmann AND: ELEPHANT BUTTONS! courtesy of David Fetter. Here's what Ed had to say about his presentation: "I'll probably end up doing live benchmarks, showing code snippets, and explaining my rationale for why I chose to do things the way I do." "My current projects involve managing a variety of Internet services, such as spam suppression and the associated per-user black/white list management, DNS record management, PKI key management, and a variety of others. Some of these services require that I deal with the storage and retrieval of both discrete IP addresses and CIDR blocks in real time. I've had to decide on data stores that include plain text files, SQL using SQLite and Postgres, and constant databases using tinycdb. At every stage of development I've had to decide which of these was best based on tools available and performance testing. For example, Postgres has IP and CIDR data types and adequate facilities to search for IP addresses within a CIDR block but performance pales in comparison to simpler tools that use plain text files. As a result, my applications use various data stores instead of just one." Refreshment afterward at the Lucky Lab!

RESCHEDULED: Extreme Database Makeover - RT 2/26/08, Cubespace

selenamarie — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:03:56 +0000

Topic: Extreme Database Makeover: RT Speakers: Jeff Davis, Mark Wong, David Wheeler When: Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 6:30pm Where: Cubespace, 622 SE Grand Avenue, Portland, OR 97214 (In association with Code-n-Splode http://pdx.codensplode.org/) Come join us for a little fun with RT. Jeff Davis recently went through an implementation of RT and had a few suggestions for their database schema. David Wheeler and Mark Wong promised to come help "refactor". There is a .dot representation of their schema out on the web, and I figured I/we could print this out, and maybe bring in a few sheets of paper to document our changes. If anyone has a printer and a few moments to volunteer, I'd appreciate help with the printing. At the end of the meeting, we'd like to pass on some of our suggestions to the good folks at Best Practical. Afterward, we'll seek refreshments at the Side Door Pub!

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Next Meeting: March 20, 2008 - Managing internet services: using the right tool for the job

RESCHEDULED: Extreme Database Makeover - RT 2/26/08, Cubespace